健康保险流通与责任法案
什么是HIPAA？
HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996. HIPAA does the following:
- 为数百万美国工人及其家人在工作变动或失业时提供转移和继续享受健康保险的能力；
- 减少医疗保健欺诈和滥用；
- 强制执行电子账单和其他流程的医疗保健信息全行业标准；以及
- 要求保护和保密处理受保护的健康信息
HIPAA is organized into separate “Titles.” For information on the HIPAA Titles, go to the link below:
HIPAA 标题信息页面。
健康保险可携性
The portion of HIPAA addressing the ability to retain health coverage is actually overseen by the California Department of Insurance and the California Department of Managed Health Care. The links below will take you to useful information about retaining your health insurance.
California Department of Managed Health Care – HIPAA and Conversion Coverage
健康信息的保护和保密处理
The HIPAA Privacy regulations require health care providers and organizations, as well as their business associates, to develop and follow procedures that ensure the confidentiality and security of protected health information (PHI) when it is transferred, received, handled, or shared. This applies to all forms of PHI, including paper, oral, and electronic, etc. Furthermore, only the minimum health information necessary to conduct business is to be used or shared.