A Guide to HIPAA and Health Information Privacy
Deirdre Kamber Todd is the Partner with the Kamber Law Group, P.C., a next-generation law-firm located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Her areas of practice include business and employment law, antidiscrimination laws, LGBTQIA issues, medical marijuana, contracts, healthcare, and HIPAA. With numerous accolades for her work as an employment lawyer and litigator, Deirdre has been quoted or appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, SHRM National, Business Insurance Weekly, and PBS.
If you are in healthcare or work with those in healthcare, you need to understand HIPAA, the broadest and all-encompassing healthcare law of the 1990s and 2000s. From its Security Rules to Business Associate Agreements, from its COVID-based telehealth provisions to its antidiscrimination laws, HIPAA goes well beyond the common view that it is a law of “additional paperwork, whispering names in waiting rooms, and lots of electronic signatures.” The law’s requirements are extensive, its penalties are fierce, its hybrid rules as employment centers and joint businesses, and its extension into the courts and federal Department of Health for complaints is unique.
This program will explore the basic tenets of the HIPAA Rules, the most recent edits under COVID, case studies on where we are today, what you need to understand about covered entities and business associates, the CMS complaint system, and other facets of this highly complicated law.
Areas Covered
The HIPAA Law:
- The Privacy Rule
- The Security Rule
- The Antidiscrimination Provisions
- “Covered Entities” versus “Business Associates”
- Telehealth Changes to HIPAA
- Workers Compensation and HIPAA
- What Does “Hybrid” Mean under HIPAA?
- CMS Hearings versus the Courts – what happens with a complaint
- Penalties and Repercussions
Who Should Attend
All healthcare employees
Why Should You Attend
If you aren’t familiar with the text of HIPAA, you need to be. With penalties including public posting on the U.S. Department of Health’s website, massive fines, and jail time, you need to understand what HIPAA requires of healthcare practitioners as “covered entities,” “business associates,” “front-facing telehealth,” “CMS complaints” and other key issues arising under HIPAA today.
Topic Background
All too commonly, HIPAA is known as the “info in a bubble” or “filling out more forms” law, rather than protecting individual and health care practitioner’s rights. But what does HIPAA really mean for healthcare? And how has HIPAA changed in light of COVID-19?
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