HIPAA Compliance Kit 11th Edition

The HIPAA Kit and HIPAA Forms are available online in PDF format with links to the forms in Word Doc. You can access them instantaneously online. You can copy the HIPAA Forms to your word processing program, insert your letterhead and name, make other necessary changes, adapt them to your particular practice, and you’re all set. The HIPAA Kit and Forms are not available in hard copy. You can also purchase the HIPAA Kit and Forms along with the Essential Clinical Forms below.

The Kit provides you with the most basic and practical understanding of HIPAA regulations and offers many practical ways to achieve compliance. The Kit does not provide a state-by-state preemption analysis, which you can obtain from your state board or national professional organization. The kit uses parts of California law as an example of some of the preemption analysis and provides a summary of the important aspects of the preemption analysis for California. You must modify the forms included in the Kit according to your personal and professional needs and requirements.

“Ingeniously combining his extensive knowledge of practice with his keen understanding of HIPAA with all its implications, Dr. Zur has compiled a practical, readable guide that addresses the potentially most impacting and disruptive force to confront psychotherapy. No mental health practitioner can afford to be without it as your practice may depend on it.”
Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Distinguished Practitioner, University of Nevada, Reno
President, Cummings Foundation for Behavioral Health
Former President, American Psychological Association

The Kit will aid psychotherapists in private practice with:

Understanding HIPAA’s basic facts and requirements.
Implementing a simple step-by-step process towards HIPAA compliance.
Acquiring checklists and ready-to-use, user-friendly forms, which you will be able to personalize and employ right away.
Avoiding the severe penalties and other risks associated with non-compliance.
Learning low-tech ways to use billing services and clearinghouses to continue receiving insurance company reimbursements.

Receive the HIPAA Compliance Kit, HIPAA Forms, AND CE Credit Hours via our HIPAA Online Course.

List of Forms can be found below in Section X

Section I: History and Essential Features of HIPAA

What is HIPAA?
What is scalable compliance?
Basic requirements for HIPAA compliance
Changes to HIPAA over time

Section II: The Privacy Rule

What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule?
What is Protected Health Information? (PHI)
To whom does the HIPAA Privacy rule apply?
Notice of Privacy Practice
Use and disclosure of PHI
Treatment, Payment, and Healthcare Operations
Marketing
Communication

Section III: Records &
Patient’s rights to information
Psychotherapy notes
Compound authorization
Patient’s rights to amend information
Records of minors
Accounting for disclosures

Section IV: The Security Rule

Protecting ePHI
Computer security
Smartphones and tablets
Other electronic devices
Risk analysis
Considerations for communication
Safeguards for Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
Risk management
Administrative safeguards
Physical safeguards
Technological safeguards
Cost-benefit analysis
Security Policies & Procedures manual

Section V: Breach Notification

Assessing breaches
Responding to breaches
Breach notification
Safe Harbor

Section VI: HIPAA Transaction and Omnibus Rules

National Provider Identifier
Business Associate
Business Associate Agreement
Considerations for marketing and communication
Consequences for non-compliance

Section VII: Updates Since The Final Omnibus Rule

CARES Act alignment with HIPAA
Allowances during COVID pandemic
2021 Safe Harbor bill
Additional possible changes 

Section VIII: HIPAA, Ethics, Preemption Analysis and State Law

What is the preemption analysis?
Under what conditions does HIPAA preempt state law?
What happens when state law conflicts with HIPAA?
The relationship between HIPAA & the Codes of Ethics?

Section IX: Risk Analysis and Security Policy & Procedure

Section X: Ready-to-Adapt Forms

Download forms as a Word Doc

Form I: HIPAA Compliance Checklist
Form II: Sample Business Associate Agreement Provisions
Form III: HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices
Form IV: Authorization to Release Information
Form V: Request for Amendment of Health Information
Form VI: Tracking of Releases
Form VII: Account of Disclosures
Form VIII: Denial of Access to PHI
Form IX: Denial of Request for Amendment
Form X: Complaint form
Form XI: Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Privacy Practice
Form XII: Breach Assessment
Form XIII: Authorization to use unencrypted e-mail & text
Form XIV: Patient’s Right for Confidential Communications
Form XV: Patient request for restriction on use and disclosure of PHI

References

DISCLAIMER: The HIPAA Compliance Kit does not intend to be a substitute for legal, ethical, or clinical advice or consultation. State laws may supersede HIPAA regulations and you must check with the laws and regulations of your state and your professional association. The very latest revision of the federal regulations may not be included in this Kit. The Kit intends to give psychotherapists a basic understanding of HIPAA regulations and is not intended to provide a complete compliance manual. It is not intended to serve as the ultimate or definitive guide to HIPAA regulations. It does not provide a state-by-state preemption analysis. It does not contain details for performing a security risk analysis or for securing any given set of computers and other electronic devices. This Kit expresses only Dr. Zur’s opinions and understanding of the regulations and does not claim to give definitive or comprehensive answers, nor the “right” interpretation of many of the complex and often ambiguous questions which are raised by the lengthy, new HIPAA regulations. Additionally, many regulations may still be changing and this Kit does not reflect any of the changes contained in the new regulation updates. State laws also change continuously and the result will be that guidelines for your practice will have to change, too. Contact your professional association, an attorney, your malpractice insurance carrier, boards and other state or federal agencies for the most current guidelines and information.