Sentences with phrase «uapcs as a business associate»

As a business associate and friend of James, Carter certainly has a window into what he's thinking.

Trinity Club Lounge is an ideal venue to relax and meet friends as well as business associates.

Customer agrees that: (i) BigTime is not acting on Customer's behalf as a Business Associate or subcontractor; (ii) the Service may not be used to store, maintain, process, or transmit protected health information and (iii) the Service will not be used in any manner that would require BigTime or the Service to be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended and supplemented («HIPAA»).

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Omnibus Rule and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), lawyers may qualify as business associates, which carries a whole host of obligations and compliance measures — and serious penalties for failing to meet those standards.

Uber Health is being engaged by health - care providers as a business associate, and will have to sign business associate agreements as a result, but it's unclear how the drivers will be categorized, Colin Zick, a health - care attorney with Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, told Bloomberg Law.

Facilities are designed with procedures in place which comply with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) security standards as a business associate, and which meet PII (Personally Identifiable Information) federal and state requirements.

The 2013 Omnibus Rule clearly defines that HIPAA contractors and subcontractors are to be treated the same as business associates when it comes to the handling of PHI.

Red e App meets HIPAA safeguard requirements and is compliant as a Business Associate; this ensures employees have a secure platform that is also simple, quick, and intuitive.

If a health care clearinghouse creates or receives protected health information only as a business associate of other covered entities, it is not required to produce a notice.

(1) When a health care clearinghouse creates or receives protected health information as a business associate of another covered entity, the clearinghouse must comply with:

We note that there may be other instances in which a business associate may combine or aggregate protected health information received in its capacity as a business associate of different covered entities, such as when it is performing health care operations on behalf of covered entities that participate in an organized health care arrangement.

Data aggregation, as discussed below, is where a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of one covered entity combines the protected health information of such covered entity with protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity in order to permit the creation of data for analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

We note that, even as business associates, clearinghouses remain covered entities.

Where a health care clearinghouse creates or receives protected health information other than as a business associate, however, it must comply with all the standards, requirements, and implementation specifications of the rule.

We recognize that in some cases, covered entities that are government agencies may be able to impose the requirements of this section directly on the persons acting as their business associates.

In the final rule, data aggregation is defined, with respect to protected health information received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, as the combining of such protected health information by the business associate with protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit the creation of data for analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

First, we permit a covered entity to authorize a business associate to use and disclose protected health information it receives in its capacity as a business associate for its proper management and administration and to carry out its legal responsibilities.

In addition, we clarify that if the assigned work station of persons under contract is on the covered entity's premises and such persons perform a substantial proportion of their activities at that location, the covered entity may choose to treat them either as business associates or as part of the workforce, as explained in the discussion of the definition of business associate.

However, even when an health insurance issuer or HMO acts as a business associate of a group health plan, the group health plan has no right of access to the other protected health information maintained by the health insurance issuer or HMO.

A covered entity that is undertaking payment activities on behalf of different covered entities also may use or disclose protected health information obtained as a business associate of one covered entity when undertaking such activities as a business associate of another covered entity where the covered entities have authorized the activities and where they are necessary to secure payment for the entities.

We proposed in the preamble that when a covered entity acted as a business associate to another covered entity, the covered entity that was acting as business associate also would have been responsible for any violations of the regulation.

We additionally require health care clearinghouses that create or receive protected health information other than as a business associate of another covered entity to produce a notice.

(iii) A covered entity that violates the satisfactory assurances it provided as a business associate of another covered entity will be in noncompliance with the standards, implementation specifications, and requirements of this paragraph and § 164.504 (e).

This provision addresses situations where law requires one party to act as the business associate of another party.

Accordingly, a contract with a business associate must state that if there are reasons that the return or destruction of the information is not feasible and the information must be retained for specific reasons and uses, such as for future audits, privacy protections must continue after the contract ends, for as long as the business associate retains the information.

This provision recognizes that in some instances the law requires that a government agency act as a business associate of a covered entity.

In the final rule, we provide that where a business associate is required by law to act as a business associate to a covered entity, the covered entity may disclose protected health information to the business associate to the extent necessary to comply with the legal mandate without Start Printed Page 82507meeting the requirement to have a business associate contract (or, in the case of government agencies, a memorandum of understanding or law pertaining to the business associate) if it makes a good faith attempt the obtain satisfactory assurances required by this section and, if unable to do so, documents the attempt and the reasons that such assurances can not be obtained.

With respect to the uses and disclosures authorized under § 164.502 or § 164.512, a clearinghouse acting as a business associate is not authorized by the rule to make any use or disclosure not permitted by its business associate contract.

Data aggregation means, with respect to protected health information created or received by a business associate in its capacity as the business associate of a covered entity, the combining of such protected health information by the business associate with the protected health information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate of another covered entity, to permit data analyses that relate to the health care operations of the respective covered entities.

When providing services to patients through managed care networks, it is likely that a PBM is acting as a business associate of a health plan, and may thus use and disclose protected health information pursuant to the relevant provisions of this rule.

We note that, where a covered entity is acting as a business associate of another covered entity, the business associate covered entity is acting for or on behalf of the principal covered entity, and its actions for or on behalf of the principal covered entity are authorized by the consent obtained by the principal covered entity.

As we stated in the preamble to the NPRM, we believe that in most instances health care clearinghouses will receive protected health information as a business associate to another covered entity.

We except data aggregation from the general requirement that a business associate contract may not authorize a business associate to use or further disclose protected health information in a manner that would violate the requirements of this subpart if done by the covered entity in order to permit the combining or aggregation of protected health information received in its capacity as a business associate of different covered entities when it is performing this service.

This right applies to health plans, covered health care providers, and health care clearinghouses that create or receive protected health information other than as a business associate of another covered entity (see § 164.500 (b)-RRB-.

Moreover, as business associates of plans and providers, health care clearinghouses are bound by the notices of information practices of the covered entities with whom they contract.

The operation of the final rule maintains the construction discussed in the preamble to the NPRM that a business associate (including a business associate that is a covered entity) that has business associate contracts with more than one covered entity generally may not use or disclose the protected health information that it creates or receives in its capacity as a business associate of one covered entity for the purposes of carrying out its responsibilities as a business associate of another covered entity, unless doing so would be a lawful use or disclosure for each of the covered entities and the business associate's contract with each of the covered entities permits the business associate to undertake the activity.

(ii) The contract or other arrangement between the covered entity and the business associate may permit the business associate to disclose the information received by the business associate in its capacity as a business associate for the purposes described in paragraph (e)(4)(i) of this section, if:

Under HIPAA, employers are not covered entities, so a health insurance issuer or HMO can not act as a business associate of an employer.

Response: In the final rule, where a clearinghouse creates or receives protected health information as a business associate of another covered entity, we maintain the exemption for health care clearinghouses from certain provisions of the regulation dealing with the notice of information practices and patient's direct access rights to inspect, copy and amend records (§ § 164.524 and 164.526), on the grounds that a health care clearinghouse is engaged in business - to - business operations, and is not dealing directly with individuals.

As business associates, they would be bound by their contracts with covered plans and providers.

Clearinghouses acting as business associates are not subject to the other requirements of this rule, which include the provisions relating to procedural requirements, requirements for obtaining consent, individual authorization or agreement, provision of a notice, individual rights to request privacy protection, access and amend information and receive an accounting of disclosures and the administrative requirements.

Rae is an outstanding professional and I hold her in the highest regards as a business associate and personal friend.

Not exact matches

Jeanne Hulit, the Small Business Administration's associate administrator in the Office of Capital Access, will take over as interim head of the agency when Karen Mills departs at end of the month.

Mark Briggs has been representing businesses and their owners for nearly 20 years, first as an associate and partner at the national law firm Quarles & Brady and now with Briggs Law Group, which he founded in 2009.

We want to help you through the problems associated with starting and growing your business as much as we want to help you prevent the problems that will inevitably happen.

the Company is also subject to a number of additional risks associated with its business outside the United States, including foreign currency exchange fluctuations and restrictive regulations as well as the risks and uncertainties associated with the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union;

Canadians are also more likely to take vacations within the country, as the exchange rate will make travel to typical winter holiday spots more expensive, says economist Roslyn Kunin of Roslyn Kunin and Associates, an economics, business and human resources consulting firm.

Cars have long been sold as «a product that is closely associated with who you are,» says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, explaining that letting strangers in can uncomfortably infringe on that identity.

I'd suggest he set up his business as a partnership, and look for associates in other cities.

It would be terrible if a potential business associate or client were to judge me poorly because I didn't come across as well - kept or professional.