Business Associate compliance with HIPAA
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, August 10, 2009
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Business associates want to know. Covered entities want to know.
What do I do in order to comply with the new HIPAA laws in the Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act?
Actually, they have to know.
The compliance deadline is February 18, 2010, but many questions linger.
During a recent HCPro audio conference, Business Associates and Covered Entities: Adapt Contracts to Comply With New HIPAA Law, attendees asked plenty of questions:
- When a medical device company sales representative is in the OR, is the sales rep or the company considered a business associate?
- Can a covered entity, like a Medicare-certified hospice program, also be considered a business associate if it works on behalf of another covered entity?
- Will there be some guidance regarding whether updating the existing business associates is going to be required?
The questions probably won’t stop any time soon. However, case-by-case scenarios aside, there is an overlying message to all parties affected by the new HIPAA laws.
Go to our HIPAA Update blog and learn some answers to concerns of BAs and covered entities regarding compliance with HIPAA.
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