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(RCH) 1RUNNING HEAD: HIPAAHIPAA Regulations and ViolationsCarrie Gray November, 23, 2008Professor_Branch_DB_1_Phase_1Colorado Technical University Online

(RCH) 2AbstractEvery health care organization provides and ensures their patients of rights and privacy,review of patient information and what is known and public, right of clear defined, presentedinformation made available, regarding patient information and laws, right to correct, add to, butnot to erase information, the right to block certain access to health information, the right to knowwho has the right to access, such as government organizations, and why, right to protect privateinformation from third parties, and responsibility in which to do so, and rights from“unauthorized modification and destruction”. (CAL HIPAA, LLC., 2008).Original ReasonIt was put in place for patients to protect, understand, and explain their rights as a patient,and assure that working Americans who had, or still have health insurance coverage while duringor in between employment, would not have to become eligible all over again for their preexistingconditions, the plan would cover a no waiting period, for health care for already diagnosed andconstant treated chronic problems or disease, so the employee would still be able to get healthcare even if they had a change in jobs, and resume proper treatment. HIPPA Health InsurancePortability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was proposed and implemented in 1996 byCongress. “

HIPAA was written to provide security to employees with previous coverage

” (HIPAARules, 2007).Most ImportantThe

Privacy Rule

was created in April of 2003 to protect sensitive and privateinformation, and assure that confidentiality among the employees working in the medicalorganizations and transferring electronic data and history who had access to yours andeveryone’s medical information, like marketers offering sales, and to maintain that rule.Depending on the state in which you live in, it is able and free to add to the original law, but

(RCH) 3cannot change from original act. The Department at Rural Community Hospital in Rural County,Tennessee, and this state “does not have a general, comprehensive statute prohibiting thedisclosure of confidential medical information”healthprivacy.org.(2007). Circumstances (PMI)Protected Medical Information (PMI), there is special occasions your PMI would beshared; health care plans, providers, and health care clearinghouses, and also other areas such as;coroners, medical examiners, funeral directors, workers' compensation plans, organ donationorganizations, and government agencies (HIPPA Rules, 2007)..PenaltiesPenalties for non-compliance of HIPPA laws can be up to $100 dollars per person, and amaximum of $25,000 a year. Willfully and knowingly can be an even steeper penalty starting at$50,000 per incident, plus imprisonment, depending on severity of 5 years or more

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