Understanding Healthcare Rights Under HIPAA

Overview/Description
 Depending on personal circumstances, each time you change jobs or insurance carriers, you may face roadblocks to securing coverage. Do you wish you knew your rights to obtaining or renewing insurance? Would you like to know how to secure new coverage without prejudice against your past medical history? Would you like to know more about the right to review, amend, and keep private your own medical records? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) offers a wide variety of protections to workers changing insurance carriers or renewing coverage under complex circumstances, but the law's provisions are intricate and often poorly understood. This course will describe HIPAA's three major healthcare mandates and its new privacy provisions. Once you learn how each of these can affect your insurance, you'll have the tools to negotiate coverage and to exert more control over your medical records.

Target Audience
 All professionals who want to understand their rights to insurance coverage and privacy of medical information

Expected Duration
1.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Healthcare Provisions

  • recognize the importance of HIPAA's healthcare provisions.
  • select descriptions of circumstances that qualify as preexisting conditions.
  • match factors of the nondiscrimination requirement with examples.
  • apply renewability and availability rules in a workplace scenario.

    • Privacy of Medical Information

  • recognize the importance of privacy of medical information.
  • determine appropriate circumstances for exerting rights to protected information in a healthcare scenario.
  • determine whether rules for disclosure have been violated in a workplace situation.

    • Course Number: HR0195