Employers

Are there penalties under HIPAA?

Business Associate Agreements are required by the regulation whenever a business associate
relationship exists. This is true even when the business associates are both covered entities.

May a health plan require a provider to use a health care clearinghouse to conduct a HIPAAcovered
transaction, or must the health plan acquire the ability to conduct the transaction directly with those
providers capable of conducting direct transactions?

HIPAA gave the option to adopt other financial and administrative transactions standards,
“consistent with the goals of improving the operation of health care system and reducing
administrative costs” to

The implementation Guides

Business Associates

Health Care Providers, however,

Group Health Plans sponsored or maintained by employers, however,

In terms of HIPAA what an organization currently is doing in a specific area of their organization and
compared current operations to other requirements mandated by state or federal law is called