Perhaps you have heard of HIPAA -- the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act -- during a visit to your doctor¿s office. The doctor¿s staff may have handed you a ¿HIPAA privacy notice¿ advising you of protections for your personal health information. But HIPAA covers a lot more than privacy. At the time HIPAA was passed, a lot of people were afraid to switch jobs because they might lose the insurance coverage they needed for their families. This report explains how HIPAA¿s protections make it easier to change employers without losing health coverage for your (& your family¿s) medical conditions. It focuses on HIPAA¿s coverage as it applies to private-sector group health plans only. Includes a glossary of terms. Illustrations.

Protecting Your Health Privacy empowers ordinary citizens with the legal and technological knowledge and know-how we need to protect ourselves and our families from prying corporate eyes, medical identity theft, ruinous revelations of socially stigmatizing diseases, and illegal punitive practices by insurers and employers. It's a new era in healthcare. Gone are the day when access to your medical records is limited to you and your doctor. Instead, today, a diverse group of constituencies have interest in and access to your health information. A cascade of changes in technology and the delivery of healthcare are increasing the vulnerability of your medical information. Accordingly, it is now more important than ever to take control over your own health information and take steps to protect your information against privacy breaches that can adversely impact the quality of your health care, your insurability, your employability, your relationships, and your reputation. In clear, non-technical language, privacy lawyer Jacqueline Klosek teaches readers the basics you need to know as an individual healthcare consumer about the ongoing wave of national and state legislation affecting patient privacy: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. She untangles the increasingly complex ways by which health care providers, insurers, employers, social networking sites, and marketers routinely collect, use, and share our personal health information. Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen's Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Information empowers ordinary citizens with the knowledge and know-how we need to protect ourselves and our families from prying eyes, medical identity theft, ruinous revelations of socially stigmatizing diseases, and illegal punitive practices by insurers and employers.

This concise, practical guide helps the advocate understand the sometimes dense rules in advising patients, physicians, and hospitals, and in litigating HIPAA-related issues.

Includes Revenue Rulings 2005-1 to 2005-37, Revenue Procedures 2005-1 to 2005-34, and Treasury Decisions 9164 to 9207. Consolidates all items of a permanent nature published in the weekly "Internal Revenue Bulletin" from issue 2005-1 through 2005-26.

Written by eminent authorities in nutrition and dietetics, this unique text explores controversial and challenging issues that dietitians must deal with in clinical practice. Topics addressed include the economics of dietetic patient care. the dietetic professional's role on the healthcare team, the impact of emerging sciences on nutrition practice,and international nutritional guidelines. The book encourages students and practitioners to reevaluate the dietitian's role and examine viewpoints that vary from traditional approaches in nutrition practice. Issues to Ponder boxes provide interesting questions and topics for further exploration and discussion. More than 95 graphs and tables illustrate key concepts and synthesize important information.

How parents and guardians can find the best medical coverage for their kids. America provides quality medical coverage for any child; however, these programs can be difficult to find. This useful book explains how the mechanics of basic group health plans, HMOs, PPOs and other insurance apply to children; lists and explores common federal and state programs that provide medical insurance for kids; compares these programs to each other-including clinics, teaching hospitals, paying cash-to help families create successful plans for getting kids medical care; and explains how families can access these programs. The Silver Lake Editors have been writing about insurance and personal finance issues for more than a decade.

HIPAA is very complex. So are the privacy and security initiatives that must occur to reach and maintain HIPAA compliance. Organizations need a quick, concise reference in order to meet HIPAA requirements and maintain ongoing compliance. The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance is a one-stop resource for real-world HIPAA