Sentences with phrase «clearinghouse functions»

As described in more detail in § 164.504 (d), we allow affiliates to perform clearinghouse functions for each other without triggering the definition of «clearinghouse» if the conditions in § 164.504 (d) are met.

We have developed a complete security policy derived from NIST 800 - 53 and maintain active business associate agreements (BAAs) with all partners for performing HIPAA compliant clearinghouse functions as well as for handling other personal health information as needed.

About the National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC / N) Established in 1986 with a mission to reduce dropout rates, the NDPC / N shares solutions for student success and dropout prevention through its clearinghouse function, active research and evaluation projects, publications, and a variety of professional development activities and conferences.

In order to fall within this definition of clearinghouse, the covered entity must perform the clearinghouse function on health information received from some other entity.

Not exact matches

In addition to providing assistance in forming Attachment Parenting support groups, API functions as a clearinghouse providing educational materials, research information, consultative, referral and speaker services to promote Attachment Parenting concepts.

At the same time, a group of civic and education organizations formed the Character Education Partnership, which now functions as the movement's clearinghouse and professional organization (and promotes its own «Eleven Principles» of character).

The suspect in the crime, 21 - year - old Dylann Storm Roof, is a white man who was known to be heavily influenced by online white supremacist hate speech, most notably from the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that now functions primarily as an Internet clearinghouse for racial fear - mongering «news» stories.

That function is provided for by clearinghouses.

Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Service Program, a Climate Service Office, a Climate Service Advisory Committee, and a Summer Institutes Program at the Regional Climate Centers for interaction with and training of students and educators on weather and climate sciences; (2) operate the Climate Service Program; (3) maintain a network of six Regional Climate Centers to work cooperatively with the State Climate Offices on data collection and exchange, research support, and state and local adaptation and response planning on climate; (4) maintain a network of offices as part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program; (5) ensure that the core functions and missions of the National Weather Service, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and any other programs within NOAA are not diminished or neglected by the establishment of the Climate Service Program or the duties imposed on such offices or programs; (6) report to Congress on the need for climate services; (7) prepare a plan for creating a Climate Service Program in NOAA and delivering climate products and services to NOAA users and stakeholders; and (8) establish and maintain a clearinghouse of federal climate service products and links to agencies providing climate services.

Health plans and health care clearinghouses rely on the provision of such information to accurately and promptly process claims for payment and for other administrative functions that directly affect a patient's ability to receive needed care, the quality of that care, and the efficiency with which it is delivered.

A department or component of a health plan or health care provider that transforms nonstandard information into standard data elements or standard transactions (or vice versa) is not a clearinghouse for purposes of this rule, unless it also performs these functions for another entity.

Billing services, repricing companies, community health management information systems, community health information systems, and «value - added» networks and switches would have been considered to be health care clearinghouses for purposes of this part, if they perform the functions of health care clearinghouses as described in the preceding sentences.

We have created a new term, «hybrid entity», to describe the situation where a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse is part of a larger legal entity; under the definition, a «hybrid entity» is «a single legal entity that is a covered entity and whose covered functions are not its primary functions.»

Instead, in the final rule, health care operations are the enumerated activities to the extent that the activities are related to the covered entity's functions as a health care provider, health plan or health care clearinghouse, i.e., the entity's «covered functions.»

(ii) If the affiliated covered entity combines the functions of a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse, the affiliated covered entity complies with paragraph (g) of this section.

One organization may have one or several «health care component (s)» that each perform one or more of the health care functions of a covered entity, i.e., health care provider, health plan, health care clearinghouse.

Covered functions, therefore, are the activities that any such entity engages in that are directly related to operating as a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse; that is, they are the functions that make it a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse.

The examples of entities in our proposed definition we continue to consider to be health care clearinghouses, as well as any other entities that meet that definition, to the extent that they perform the functions in the definition.

An entity that is a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse meets the statutory definition of covered entity regardless of how much time is devoted to carrying out health care - related functions, or regardless of what percentage of their total business applies to health care - related functions.

In the final rule we address the issue of differentiating health plan, covered health care provider and health care clearinghouse activities from other functions carried out by a single legal entity in paragraphs (a)- (c) of § 164.504.

Covered functions means those functions of a covered entity the performance of which makes the entity a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse.

Although not addressed in the proposed rule, this final rule also recognizes that a covered entity may as a single legal entity, affiliated entity, or other arrangement combine the functions or operations of health care providers, health plans and health care clearinghouses (for example, integrated health plans and health care delivery systems may function as both health plans and health care providers).

Value added networks and switches are not health care clearinghouses unless they carry out the functions outlined in the definition.

Further, the statutory definitions of key terms such as health care provider and health care clearinghouse describe functions, not specific types of persons or entities.

Response: We clarify that entities acting as simple and routine communications conduits and carriers of information, such as telephone companies and Internet Service Providers, are not clearinghouses as defined in the rule unless they carry out the functions outlined in our definition.

At a minimum, the health care component includes the organizational units of the covered entity that operate as or perform the functions of the health plan, health care provider, or clearinghouse and does not include any unit or function of the excepted benefits plan, policy, or program.

Entities performing other functions but not meeting the criteria for a health care clearinghouse are not clearinghouses, although they may be business associates.

(1) A covered entity that performs multiple covered functions that would make the entity any combination of a health plan, a covered health care provider, and a health care clearinghouse, must comply with the standards, requirements, and implementation specifications of this subpart, as applicable to the health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse covered functions performed.

Family Assessment Form (FAF) California Evidence - Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (2015) Describes a tool that can be used to assess how families of all types and sizes function by assessing context as well as transactions among family members and their environment.

Market to Market (Note: The National Association of REALTORS ® is functioning solely as a facilitator / clearinghouse, and we do not guarantee any business development from participation in the International Market - to - Market Program.)