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HIPAA Primer: An Introduction to HIPAA Rules, Requirements, and Compliance

You’ll acquire a working knowledge of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) by reading this publication. The instructional content makes it easy for you to understand and apply key components of HIPAA, including the Privacy Rule, administrative simplification requirements, marketing, and legal issues.

What You’ll Learn:

  • The key components of HIPAA, including privacy, transactions, and security
  • The roles of business associates, employers, and health plan sponsors
  • HIPAA’s impact on business operations and clinical practice
  • Guidelines for the development of organizational policies and procedures
  • How to prepare and distribute required documents, including privacy notice, authorization, and business associate agreement
  • Case scenarios that illustrate compliance issues in action
  • HIPAA terminology

Price
$40 AHIP Members; $50 Non-members
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This publication is used in tandem with the following course:

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