Health Services
October 7, 2012
Week 5 Assignment
Professor Oestmann
Em-sheree Patterson
HIPPA

HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established new standards for the confidentiality, security, and transmissibility of health care information. There are three types of standards created by HIPAA: privacy, security and administrative simplification (e.g., transaction standards). Taken together, these regulations have a major impact on the day-to-day functioning of the nation's hospitals and affect virtually every department of every entity that provides or pays for health care.
Researching the different topics available, I have chosen the HIPPA issue. I have chose this because it plays a major part in the health care industry. Nearly every time you hear healthcare the phrase/word HIPPA follows not long after. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established new standards for the confidentiality, security, and transmissibility of health care information. HIPPA is in place to retain the privacy within the healthcare policies. HIPPA provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, reduces health care fraud and abuse, and mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes. Working in the healthcare industry allowed me to see that without the HIPPA policy in place medical records and or patient’s medical information.
HIPAA is a federal law that: * Limits the ability of a new employer plan to exclude coverage for preexisting conditions; * Provides additional opportunities to enroll in a group health plan if you lose other coverage or experience certain life events; * Prohibits discrimination against employees and