HIPAA for DD Providers

HIPAA for I/DD Providers
HIPAA for Residential Services
HIPAA for Autism Providers
HIPAA for Epilepsy Providers
HIPAA for long-term care

Are you prepared? Design an emergency preparedness plan!

At the recent annual conference of the Association of Professional Developmental Disability Administrators (APDDA), we had the pleasure of hearing from administrators from facilities in Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Texas and Miami, Florida who spoke about their experiences preparing for and recovering from Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma last fall. Part of building an […]

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HIPAA says: Document EVERYTHING!

Key Point:  If you don’t document it, you can’t prove you have followed privacy regulations — meaning you could face penalties.  Security policies and procedures are mandated under the Health Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the regs are very specific about the policies and procedures you need to implement. Through your documentation of

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Feds send a message via one county agency

In one of the HIPAA cases most relevant to the I/DD-Residential  sector, a county agency delivering health services to low-income people settled a potential breach by paying out $215,000 to the Feds.  The agency serves a rural population of about 120,000 in Skagit County, Washington —  where nearly 18 percent of the people live below the

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Privacy rules pose special challenges to I/DD providers

Because of familiar relationships that develop within home settings, I/DD providers may be especially prone to innocent disclosures of private health information that can lead to costly fines and unwanted publicity.  Like ignorance, federal enforcers of privacy rules won’t accept innocence as an excuse. Currently, DD providers are among 364 organizations currently under federal investigation

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