Summary: Unit 5 Medical Office Procedures

The main goal of HIPAA is to protect unauthorized access and misuse of confidential health information. It allows for the safe storage of any health facts used, collected, transmitted or maintained by any health organization. It states that all health information about a particular client is completely confidential, regardless of what the format is and whether it is transmitted, maintained or collected. Protected information is that health information that already identifies the patient or could be used in order to identify the patient; it also relates to any of the patient’s past, present or future health conditions, any treatment the patient receives and any payment the patient makes toward their care.

All healthcare providers, health organizations, and government health plans that use, store, maintain, or transmit patient health care information are required to comply with the privacy regulations of the HIPAA

There’s a line between child and adult, and it can be fuzzy, So how do we in the YellowHammer State define between adults and minors.All states have minor laws, the age in which a citizen is considered an adult in the eyes of the law.In Alabama, has legal process referred to (Emancipation) the legal age is 19 years old; the age of majority Code of Alabama 26-1-1 minors still have legal rights and responsibilities.A 15-year old can enter into an insurance contract, under the Alabama laws.Under Code of Alabama 26-13-1 at age 18 they are eligible for emancipation, in laymen's terms, they are at the age

Under HIPPA you are not legally able to view a patient’s medical information unless you are their doctor. It would be a violation of the patients’ personal information, which is against the law, because you were not given permission by the doctor or patient.

When starting your petty cash fund for your office, make sure you should put in enough cash that you are not replenishing it every other day. You should open it with at least fifty to one-hundred dollars, evaluate the amount for a while to see if you are replenishing before bills are being paid in the office. If this is the case then maybe you should add more cash so that the fund does not run out before the bills are due. Some offices will have a fund for One-hundred dollars up to one-thousand dollars, which ever suits your offices spending habits.

What provisions apply? To maintain all health records confidential. the HIPPA law must cover all privacy polices, name, contact, files, or even contacting up to measures at the office. Each patients medical documents must be protected by entity's of the privacy practices. This law has passed years ago since 1996. Public law 104-191 includes a personal representative's that respect and secure each patient health files/documents.

Any patient that is seen by a physician within the United States is to be protected by the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” or HIPAA, which was passed into law in 1996 (Jani, 2009). All health care facilities dealing with any protected health information (PHI) are to ensure that all physical/electronic processes are safeguarded from any third party entity or unauthorized personnel according to HIPAA. All health care data to include any medical insurance

Many of the forms that we require our patients or their legal guardians to fill out are required un-der the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. HIPAA was enacted in Congress in 1996 and implemented, along with privacy rules by the US Department of Health and Human Services. These rules govern the way that medical providers, including our Plano pe-diatricians, handle confidential medical information. The types of medical information that are protected are:

HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is a US law designed to provide privacy standards to protect patients’ medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers” (MedicineNet). The HIPAA Privacy Rule applies to health insurance plans, providers, clearinghouses, and associates of HIPAA covered entities. Information that is protected by HIPAA are all identifiable personal health information. This includes paper records, electronic health records, labs, films, and even verbally spoken information.

Dr. Radcliff states HIPPA protects from sharing with people who are not involved in your care name, date of birth, social security, and address. Health or mental conditions, present or past. Admissions. Procedures and treatments. Billing and payment information. Violations are accessing records not used for direct care. Sharing

To appropriately guard against unauthorized access to or modification of ePHI that is being transmitted from Topaz network’s the procedures outlined must be implemented:

HIPPA is a rule that helps protects a patient’s privacy when it comes to their health or medical information. It is also known as a security rule that helps in protecting electronic health information as well. As in the health care patient safety and confidentiality is an important rule to follow at all times. A standard of HIPPA is privacy. When it comes to privacy it is meant by protecting a patient’s medical information in any form needs to be controlled at all times. It is a rule that is balanced and used to protect the disclosure of the patient’s health information that is needed for patient care and treatment. It is important that any person working in the health care setting is aware of this rule as it is important to follow when

This sheet gives you information about how to care for yourself after your procedure. Your health care provider may also give you more specific instructions. If you have problems or questions, contact your health care provider.

One of the essential health procedures that he clinician carry out is immunization. Thus, it important that health care providers have a comprehensive and complete knowledge of the topic and know how to take care of irregular situation (Warren, 2017). In the MED U case, Asia started her visit at the age of the 2 months and maintained all scheduled visit up to 12 months.

So, let’s speak about disease itself. What is HIV/AIDS? This acronym means “human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome”. As illness progresses, it makes person, suffering from it, get more and more infections, which effect him in a way they will never effect a healthy person. HIV is usually transmitted via unprotected sex intercourse, blood transfusion, hypodermic needles and from mother to a child. However, despite the popular misconception, HIV/AIDS can`t be transmitted by casual non-sexual contact. HIV/AIDS is considered pandemic: in 2012,