During its investigation, the OCR found that the hospitalist group had never entered into a
business associate agreement for billing services with First Choice, as required by HIPAA, and that the practice also failed to adopt any policies regarding
business associate agreements until 2014, according to a Dec.
Lessons learned: The case illustrates the importance of having a
business associate agreement in place for all third parties that may have access to protected health information, Clinton Mikel, a Farmington Hills, Mich., health law attorney specializing in HIPAA compliance, said in an interview.
or
business associate, what type of health information can be deemed
He also said he met with Ajudua and his
business associate, Joseph Ochunor (now at large), in Ajudua 's office, and that Ochunor gave details of an account where the money would be paid into.
Summary: New Delhi [India], Feb 9 (ANI): In a bid to streamline and enable secure pay-outs and disbursements to its network of partners, distributors and individuals in the country, Rubique, in partnership with MatchMove India, announced the launch of its Prepaid Card - a new-age cashless solution which will facilitate payouts, working capital support, rewards and recognition benefits to its
business associate network.
A cloud service provider is a HIPAA
business associate if the services that it performs for the covered entity involve the creation, receipt, maintenance, or transmission of ePHI.
Judging from these resolution agreements in these two cases, "the OCR considers
business associate agreements and security risk analyses as 'low-hanging fruit' for covered entities' HIPAA compliance," Lynn Sessions and Suchismita Pahi of BakerHostetler wrote in a blog post.
Every covered entity and
business associate is eligible for an audit, the OCR noted.