- Authorizations (30)
                              - Business Associates (41)
                              - Compliance Dates (2)
                              - Covered Entities (14)
                              - Decedents (9)
                              - Disclosures for Law Enforcement Purposes (5)
                              - Disclosures for Rule Enforcement (1)
                              - Disclosures in Emergency Situations (2)
                              - Disclosures Required by Law (6)
                              - Disclosures to Family and Friends (28)
                              - Disposal of Protected Health Information (6)
                              - Facility Directories (7)
                              - Family Medical History Information (3)
                              - FERPA and HIPAA (10)
                              - Group Health Plans (3)
                              - Incidental Uses and Disclosures (10)
                              - Judicial and Administrative Proceedings (8)
                              - Minimum Necessary (14)
                              - Notice of Privacy Practice (20)
                              - Preemption of State Law (10)
                              - Privacy Rule: General Topics (12)
                              - Protected Health Information (2)
                              - Public Health Uses and Disclosures (13)
                              - Research Uses and Disclosures (20)
                              - Right to an Accounting of Disclosures (8)
                              - Right to File a Complaint (1)
                              - Right to Request a Restriction (4)
                              - Safeguards (13)
                              - Security Rule (24)
                              - Smaller Providers and Businesses (145)
                              - Student Immunizations (8)
                              - Transition Provisions (3)
                              - Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations Disclosures (30)
                              - Workers Compensation Disclosures (5)
                              - Limited Data Set (6)
                              - Marketing (17)
                              - Marketing - Refill Reminders (16)
                              - Personal Representatives and Minors (12)
                              - Right to Access and Research (58)
                              - Mental Health (35)
                              - Health Information Technology (41)
                              - Telehealth (11)

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# Covered Entities

##         190-Who must comply with HIPAA privacy standards      

As required by Congress in HIPAA, the Privacy Rule covers health plans, health care providers and health care clearinghouses.

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##         278-When is an authorization required from the patient before a provider or health plan engages in marketing to that individual      

The HIPAA Privacy Rule expressly requires an authorization for uses or disclosures of protected health information for ALL marketing communications, except in two circumstances:

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##         314-When is a researcher considered to be a covered health care provider under HIPAA      

A researcher is a covered health care provider if he or she furnishes health care services to individuals, including the subjects of research, and transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered by the Transactions Rule.

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##         358-Are state, county or local health departments required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule      

If a State, county, or local health department performs functions that make it a covered entity, or otherwise meets the definition of a covered entity they must comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

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##         364-Are long/short term disability; workers' compensation; automobile liability that includes coverage for medical payments covered under HIPAA      

No. The listed types of policies are not health plans. The HIPAA Administrative Simplification regulations specifically exclude from the definition of a “health plan” any policy, plan, or program to the extent that it provides, or pays for the cost of, excepted benefits, which are listed in section 2791(c)(1) of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 300gg-91(c)(1).

 

 

Date Created: 12/20/2002

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##         365-Is an entity that is acting as a third party administrator to a group health plan a covered entity      

Providing services to or acting on behalf of a health plan does not transform a third party administrator (TPA) into a covered entity.

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##         366-Is SSA a covered entity      

The SSA is not a covered entity.

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##         421-Is an fsa a covered entity for purposes of the Privacy Rule      

A "group health plan" is a covered entity under the Privacy Rule and the other HIPAA, Title II, Administrative Simplification standards.

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##         494-Were there Privacy Rule compliance deadlines in 2004      

There are two deadlines for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Rule on April 14, 2004:

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##         495-Must all small health plans comply with the Privacy Rule      

No. Certain plans are specifically excluded from having to comply with the HIPAA Administrative Simplification requirements, including the Privacy Rule.

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##         496-Is the fully insured group health plan subject to all of the Privacy Rule provisions      

The Privacy Rule recognizes that certain fully insured group health plans may not need to satisfy all of the requirements of the Privacy Rule since these responsibilities will be carried out by the health insurance issuer or HMO with which the group health plan has contracted for coverage of its members.

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##         499-As an employer, I sponsor a group health plan for my employees. Am I a covered entity under HIPAA      

Covered entities under HIPAA are health care clearinghouses, certain health care providers, and health plans.

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##         20111-Are tissue repositories covered entities      

Are tissue repositories covered entities?

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##         2023-Can health care providers invite or arrange for members of the media, including film crews, to enter treatment areas of their facilities without prior written authorization      

Health care providers cannot invite or allow media personnel, including film crews, into treatment or other areas of their facilities where patients’ PHI will be accessible in written, electronic, oral, or other visual or audio form, or otherwise make PHI accessible to the media, without prior written authorization from each individual who is or will be in the area or whose PHI otherwise will be accessible to the media.

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