Sentences with phrase «other health care entity»

UF Health is a collaboration of the University of Florida Health Science Center, Shands hospitals and other health care entities.

The first six are medical malpractice lawsuits against Baltimore Hospitals, the other ten are not specifically against hospitals as the prime defendants, but are against doctors and other health care entities.

Not exact matches

The Band taxes these entities at 100 percent and utilizes the revenues to provide health care, education, and other programs and services to Band members.

Chartock had asked Cuomo to respond to a recent Times story that more than half of the estimated $ 7.1 million his campaign has accepted from PACs, LLCs, associations and other entities has come from big - moneyed special interests in Albany, including the health care industry, labor and real estate developers.

True Health's plans for the next few years are to modernize the hospital laboratory into an entity that can coordinate and improve patient care for other hospital departments.

I looked at the full list of companies and found a mix that I would say Yes, Maybe, and No to individually, but No to altogether, especially with 25 % in financials and 22 % in health care, two industries whose biggest entities are the height of avarice and whose top - dogs are paid staggeringly huge salaries and bonuses (hundreds of millions of dollars per year) that I believe come from entrenched practices of outright usury and gross overcharging, among other heinous activities.

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Contribute to the financial support of homeless, abused or abandoned Scottish Terriers, including medical care, dental care, temperament and health evaluations, grooming, food, and shelter requirements, through a grant process, on a case by case basis, only to those independent entities referenced in # 2 below or to other individuals or rescue groups that agree in writing and execute all required documents pursuant to the STCA requirements, terms and conditions which the independent (local) rescue groups have executed.

Our attorneys have significant experience in forming and organizing corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships, but also understand how entity choice and other structural components impact health care reimbursement and regulatory compliance.

Ed has represented engineering firms, health care companies, and defense firms in grand jury investigations into alleged fraud in their business dealings with the federal government and other public entities.

Other health care professionals and entities can be sued as well, such as:

We represent health care providers and other individuals and commercial entities in resolving contractual and other business disputes.

Robin represents corporations and other business entities across numerous industries, including manufacturing, retail, construction, banking, insurance, food service, franchising, agricultural, health care and hospitality clients in the full range of labor and employment law matters.

Serious questions currently exist whether the law will cover electronic medical records held by third party records entities, which may have links to credit reporting and other data brokers, when these, pushed by both political parties etc. as a health care cost control and improvement measure, which seems legitimate, are implemented.

Draft or review data sharing, system access and IT services agreements for hospitals, CCACs, LHINs, prescribed persons (registries), prescribed entities and health care associations, among others.

We have litigated such claims on behalf of our clients against health insurers, managed care plans, government entities and other third - party payors.

He represents insurance companies, long term care providers, individual health care providers and other individuals and entities.

Under the Privacy Rule, a covered entity may «share [PHI] with an individual's family member, other relative, close personal friend, or any other person identified by the individual, [which is] directly relevant to the involvement of that person in the patient's care or payment for health care.»

[I] f a state grants legally married spouses health care decision - making authority for each other, such that legally married spouses are personal representatives under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the legally married spouse is the patient's personal representative and a covered entity must provide the spouse access to the patient's records.

We will stand up to any insurance company, health care provider, corporation or other powerful entity to hold them accountable for the compensation you deserve.

Mr. Wasserman has represented a diverse group of health care providers and entities including hospitals, hospital medical staffs, long - term care facilities, physicians, physician specialty organizations, and other health - related entities in matters of health and hospital law, including, without limitation: the analysis of health care fraud and abuse matters, JCAHO matters, reimbursement issues, tax - exempt issues, and other corporate compliance and federal and state regulatory matters.

Since the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was implemented in 2003, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not conducted a formalized plan for auditing health care providers, insurance plans and other covered entities... untiHealth Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was implemented in 2003, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not conducted a formalized plan for auditing health care providers, insurance plans and other covered entities... untiHealth and Human Services (HHS) has not conducted a formalized plan for auditing health care providers, insurance plans and other covered entities... untihealth care providers, insurance plans and other covered entities... until now.

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.

Under the final rule, we specify that covered entities may disclose to a person involved in the current health care of the individual (such as a family member, other relative, close personal friend, or any other person identified by the individual) protected health information directly related to the person's involvement in the current health care of an individual or payment related to the individual's health care.

(i) On behalf of such covered entity or of an organized health care arrangement (as defined in § 164.501 of this subchapter) in which the covered entity participates, but other than in the capacity of a member of the workforce of such covered entity or arrangement, performs, or assists in the performance of:

Rather than creating a single definition of «research information,» we allow covered entities the flexibility to define that subset of protected health information they create during clinical research that is not necessary for treatment, payment, or health care operations and that the covered entity will use or disclose under more limited circumstances than it uses or discloses other protected health information.

Comment: A number of commenters urged the Department to expand or clarify the definition of «covered entity» to include certain entities other than health care clearinghouses, health plans, and health care providers who conduct standard transactions.

Therefore, clergy or other religious practitioners that provide solely religious healing services are not health care providers within the meaning of this rule, and consequently not covered entities for the purposes of this rule.

Similarly, we recognize that a covered entity may wish to rely upon a consent, authorization, or other express legal permission obtained from an individual prior to the applicable compliance date of this regulation that specifically permits the covered entity to use or disclose individually identifiable health information for activities other than to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations.

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.

The commenter stated that the clarifying language is needed given the «catchall» category of entities defined as «any other individual plan or group health plan, or combination thereof, that Start Printed Page 82578provides or pays for the cost of medical care,» and asserted that absent clarification there could be serious confusion as to whether property and casualty benefit providers are «health plans» under the rule.

Comment: One commenter pointed out that the preamble referred to the obligations of providers and did not use the term, «covered entity,» and thus created ambiguity about the obligations of health care providers who may be employed by persons other than covered entities, e.g., pharmaceutical companies.

If a covered entity is a hybrid entity, the requirements of this subpart, other than the requirements of this section, apply only to the health care component (s) of the entity, as specified in this section.

If under applicable law a parent, guardian, or other person acting in loco parentis has authority to act on behalf of an individual who is an unemancipated minor in making decisions related to health care, a covered entity must treat such person as a personal representative under this subchapter, with respect to protected health information relevant to such personal representation, except that such person may not be a personal representative of an unemancipated minor, and the minor has the authority to act as an individual, with respect to protected health information pertaining to a health care service, if:

(2) A covered entity participating in an organized health care arrangement that performs a function or activity as described by paragraph (1)(i) of this definition for or on behalf of such organized health care arrangement, or that provides a service as described in paragraph (1)(ii) of this definition to or for such organized health care arrangement, does not, simply through the performance of such function or activity or the provision of such service, Start Printed Page 82799become a business associate of other covered entities participating in such organized health care arrangement.

Others questioned whether such studies or research performed internal to a covered entity are «health care operations» even if generalizable results may be produced.

We note that the consents that covered entities are permitted to obtain relate to their own uses and disclosures of protected health information for treatment, payment, and health care operations and not to the practices of others.

We do not consider a financial institution to be acting on behalf of a covered entity, and therefore no business associate contract is required, when it processes consumer - conducted financial transactions by debit, credit or other payment card, clears checks, initiates or processes electronic funds transfers, or conducts any other activity that directly facilitates or effects the transfer of funds for compensation for health care.

We disagree that accessible information should be restricted to information used to make health care decisions, because other decisions by covered entities can also affect individuals» interests.

Consistent with the other titles of HIPAA, our proposed definition did not include certain types of insurance entities, such as workers» compensation and automobile insurance carriers, other property and casualty insurers, and certain forms of limited benefits coverage, even when such arrangements provide coverage for health care services.

Response: A detailed discussion of the final rule's organizational requirements and firewall restrictions for «health care components» of larger entities, as well as for affiliated, and other entities is found at the discussion of § 164.504 of this preamble.

In addition, these covered providers may elect to reach agreements with other entities distribute their notice on their behalf, or to participate in an organized health care arrangement that produces a joint notice.

Response: We agree that online companies are covered entities under the rule if they otherwise meet the definition of health care provider or health plan and satisfy the other requirements of the rule, i.e., providers must also transmit health information in electronic form in connection with a HIPAA transaction.

We also include within the definition an organized system of health care in which more than one covered entity participates, and in which the participating covered entities hold themselves out to the public as participating in a joint arrangement, and in which the joint activities of the participating covered entities include at least one of the following: utilization review, in which health care decisions by participating covered entities are reviewed by other participating covered entities or by a third party on their behalf; quality assessment and improvement activities, in which treatment provided by participating covered entities is assessed by other participating covered entities or by a third party on their behalf; or payment activities, if the financial risk for delivering health care is shared in whole or in part by participating covered entities through the joint arrangement and if protected health information created or received by a covered entity is reviewed by other participating covered entities or by a third party on their behalf for the purpose of administering the sharing of financial risk.

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.

They requested that the rule permit a covered entity to deny access when the information is requested by someone other than the subject of the information and, in the opinion of a licensed health care professional, access to the information could harm the individual or another person.

Response: As explained above, under § 164.506 (a)(4), health plans and other covered entities may seek the individual's consent for the covered entity's use and disclosure of protected health information to carry out treatment, payment, or health care operations.

Comment: A few commenters asserted that the requirement to include a statement in which the patient acknowledged that information used or disclosed to any entity other than a health plan or health care provider may no longer be protected by federal privacy law would be inconsistent with existing protections implemented by IRBs under the Common Rule.

For example, covered entities are permitted to disclose for the purposes of providing health care to the individual who is the inmate, or for the health and safety of other inmates or officials and employees of the facility.