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Warbritton & Associates provides only medical-legal reports for the Workers' Compensation Insurance System and is not a treating health facility. As such, Warbritton & Associates is specifically exempted from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA, Title II). To maintain the privacy of your medical records, however, this practice does follow HIPAA guidelines regarding the privacy of your health information. For more on HIPAA, see the Department of Health Services HIPAA Site. You can download and read our policy here. www.warbrittonassociates.com/hipaa.pdf
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What is HIPAA?
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. There are two sections:
->Title I deals with protecting health insurance coverage for people who lose or change jobs.
->Title II includes an administrative simplification section, which deals with the standardization of healthcare-related information systems. It establishes mandatory regulations that required many changes to the way that health providers conduct business.
HIPAA seeks to establish standardized security and confidentiality for electronic transfer of all healthcare-related information.
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