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Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Report

   

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HIPAA ActHealth Insurance Portability- and- Accountability Act (HIPAA) - 1996HIPAA (PL 104-191) is an act that is developed to promote the efficacy of thehealth- care system of United States by improving probability with continuity of health-insurance coverage, combat fraud and abuse and to promote savings accounts. Themain goal of this act involves making the health insurance policy easily accessible to USpeople, protect their confidentiality with security for health-related informations andguide health-related organizations to control their administrational costs (DHCS, 2017).HIPAA is divided into two titles as: Title- I: Health care accessibility, portability as well asrenew-ability that deals with health-related policies. It involves protecting the coveragefor health- insurance when an individual changes or resigns his/her job and addressinghealth issues including pre-existing problems (ASHA, 2017). Title- II: Simplification inadministrative functions (Preventing Health-related fraud- and/or abuse) that involvesproviding privacy with security for health-related informations, improving electronicstandardizing methods for transferring health-related information and providing uniqueidentification for providers (Data- Guard, 2017). HIPPA act that was originally called as ‘Kennedy- Kassebaum’s Bill’ consists of aset of rules and regulations and has become an act in 1996. HIPAA act was passed byCongress in Aug’ 1996. Its standards for regulating electronic exchange of health-related informations, its privacy as well as security were finalized by the health withhuman services department of U.S. in 2002 (Data- Guard, 2017). These regulationsapply to health- related plans, policies, and clearing- houses and to all the health-related professionals, who were responsible for transferring health- related informationsinto electronic data. The first aspect of HIPPA was the Privacy- rule that was finalized in1

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