Our Risk Management Department is staffed by experienced professionals with legal and clinical backgrounds.

This combination provides our client with assistance from staff who have a thorough understanding of both the clinical situation and the legal issues and their implications. Our programs and services include:
 · Risk identification
 · Risk reduction
 · Loss prevention
 · Risk management education

We identify and implement sound risk management services to help you avoid potential incidents and lawsuits.

Do You Know Enough About HIPAA?
To help you learn how HIPAA affects you, The Psychiatrists' Program offers the following ways to make you more familiar with these new regulations.

HIPAA Update for Program Participants:
Business Associate Agreement with PRMS

Security Rule Resources updated 2/05 to include the Security Rule
 

1. Facts and Figures

• HIPAA Diagram
• HIPAA Resources
• Article: How to Handle HIPAA Hype
• Top Ten HIPAA Myths
• HIPAA Resource Manual (including model forms) (Participants Only; must log in)
• HIPAA Resources by State including Resources for Preemption Analysis
    of State Law
• Security Rule Resources

• Enforcement of the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act (requiring electronic submission of Medicare claims)
   - CMS' providers bulletin explaining enforcement
  - CMS' instructions to carriers for enforcement, including letters to be sent to  providers (find CR 3440 in the right column, select R435CP in the second)
• HIPAA Security education materials
• Resource Guide for HIV Services Providers
• OCR now has Privacy Rule Listserv available
• OCR’s letter to providers clarifying Privacy Rule issues
• Substance Abuse Treatment Records (subject to 42 CFR Pt 2) and Privacy Rule
• OCR Contact Information
• Summary of HIPAA Privacy Rule
• How to File a Health Information Privacy Complaint with OCR
• How the Privacy Rule Applies to Research
• CDC and HHS Issue New Guidance About the HIPAA Privacy Rule
    and Public Health
• How to determine if you are covered
• OCR Guidance Explaining Significant Aspects of Privacy Rule
• FAQs about the Privacy Rule

• 4/18/08: Do Patients Have Access to Therapy or Personal Notes?
• 02/16/06: Enforcement of the Administrative Simplification Regulations - Final Rule
• 9/23/05: Claims Attachment Standards - CMS published a new proposed rule for electronic claims attachments
• 1/23/04: National Provider Identifier (NPI) Final Rule Published
• 10/8/03: What Does October 16th Mean For You? (must log in)
• 7/24/03: CMS Issues Transactions Rule Compliance Guidance
• 4/15/03: Interim Final Rule for Enforcement of the Privacy Rule published
• 3/11/03: Notice of Address for Submission of Requests for Preemption Exception     Determinations published
• 02/28/03: HHS Adopts Final Security Standards, Transaction Modifications For     Electronic Health Information Under HIPAA  
• 02/10/03: Watch for States to Impose Privacy Rule Requirements
• 09/18/02: HIPAA Alert (must log in)
• 12/27/01: Pres.Bush Signs Administrative Simplification Compliance Act Into Law