HIPAA Help: A Compliance Toolkit for Psychotherapists for Maintaining Records' Privacy and Security, Managing Risks, and Operating - Softcover

Edward L. Zuckerman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972716815 ISBN 13: 9780972716819

Publisher: Three Wishes Press, 2006

Synopsis

HIPAAHelp will give you all the explanations, forms, and guidelines to make your practice HIPAA-compliant both immediately and in all foreseeable situations. Completely updated for 2009, it includes hotlinks to internet resources, and relevant parts of the regulations. You will understand exactly what and how much to do so that you will not waste time or effort nor be vulnerable for violations by doing too little. This book has sold almost 7,000 copies and was a Featured Selection of Behavioral Science Book Service. It is easy to read yet complete as are all of Ed's books. Forms to use immediately: The required Notice of Privacy Practices, A Briefer Notice of Privacy Practices, The required Consent Form, Essential content of Authorizations, A Staff Confidentiality Agreement, Form for Revoking an Authorization, Requests for an Accounting of Disclosures, etc, Detailed guidance for complying with the Minimum Necessary Rule, Rules about Incidental Disclosures, Business Associate Contracts requirements, Needed Disaster Recovery plans, Rules on handling client Complaints, and Requests for Alternative Means of Communication. Also checklists for Doing the Gap Analysis, The duties of the Privacy Officer, Keeping an Account of Disclosures, and Training staff in Privacy & Security Rules. Guidelines for evaluating When to Keep Psychotherapy or Progress Notes, Clients' Requests to Copy, Access, & Amend records, Where HIPAA Preempts your State s Laws, and How much effort to put into HIPAA Compliance. This is the Complete Package! A HIPAA Reference Library with full explanations and definitions of all terms, procedures, and the legal requirements to which you can refer to over the years as HIPAA interacts with other areas of practice. For your questions, the entire text of the HIPAA regulations is included. URLs and descriptions of about a hundred websites for additional information and materials.

About this title

About the Author

Edward Zuckerman, earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and has worked in community mental health, with adults with mental retardation, taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at Carnegie Mellon for about 20 years, and was in full time independent practice of clinical psychology for almost 20 years. He is the author of the best selling the Clinician s Thesaurus (now in its fifth edition and with over 200,000 in print and a computerized version) and The Paper Office (in a Fourth edition for 2003) which contains all the forms and guidance one needs to operate a private practice legally, ethically, and profitably. He edits the series of books called The Clinicians ToolBox at Guilford Press and consults with Social Security Disability Determination in Greensburg.

Review

Ed, I just received your Hipaa Help book and I loved it. You write concisely and boil the information down to what I need to know. --Avi Kuperberg

Ed, Thank you so much. You have made my day, my week & my month!!! Not to mention making it very easy for me to get into compliance, and most importantly, you have assuaged my anxiety. I am very grateful. You're a Sweetie and a colleague in the best sense of the word. --Virginia Theo-Steelman, Ed.D.

I have no financial involvement in Dr. Zuckerman's publishing enterprise (although I wish I did); he just produces good solid stuff at a ridiculously reasonable price. --Andrew Ursino, Ph.D.

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Wishes Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0972716815
• ISBN 13: 9780972716819
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Edward L Zuckerman