12/26/2002: Analysis: Understanding HHS' Newest Guidance on HIPAA Privacy Rule (Pepper Hamilton LLP)Excerpt: "According to OCR, a business associate is a person or entity that performs certain specific functions, activities or services that involve the use or disclosure of PHI on behalf of a covered entity. The types of functions or activities that could make a person or entity a business associate include payment or health care operations activities, such as claims processing or administration, data analysis, utilization review, quality assurance, billing, benefit management ..."
Important word about authorship:
BenefitsLink ® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, with a hypertext link to an item we think is interesting and valuable for companies sponsoring employee benefit plans, employees who participate in plans, and firms who provide products and services to plans. But BenefitsLink is not the author of the item to which this hypertext link will take you (unless expressly indicated there).
|
|
|
