Who falls under HIPAA regulations?
Providers
- hospitals
- health clinics
- nursing homes
- doctors
- dentists
- pharmacies
- chiropractors
- psychologists
Health Plans
- HMO’s
- health insurance providers
- self insured companies
- company health plans
- government programs that pay for health care such as Medicaid and Medicare
- veterans’ health programs.
Healthcare Clearinghouses
Includes entities that process nonstandard health information for a healthcare organization and transform the data into a different format
Business Associates
Note if you have a healthcare organization as a customer you may be subject to HIPAA. HIPAA extend to an individual or entity that is required to perform functions on behalf of a HIPAA-covered entity that involves the use or disclosure of protected heath information.
This could apply to you if your company does the following:
- process claims
- provide administrative services
- quality assurance
- billing
- payment
- collections services
- accountants
- consultants
- attorneys
- data storage firms
- data management companies
- software providers who deal with PHI
- cloud service providers
- cloud platforms
- document storage companies
- medical billing companies
- answering services
- medical device manufacturers
- transcription companies
- medical couriers
- marketing firms
Subcontractors
- Consultants
- Marketing Firms
- IT Support Vendor
- Attorneys
- Shredding Companies
- Equipment Rental Companies
