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Physician Office Acute Care Hospital Home Health & Hospice Procedure Content Definition of PHI Minimum Necessary* Patient's right to request restrictions on the use and disclosure of their PHI Organizations have the right to accept or deny a patient's request for restrictions on the use and disclosure of their PHI Disclosures for treatment, payment and healthcare operations is addressed Situations when a patient authorization to release PHl is not required Situations when a patient authorization to release PHI is required Patient's right to access their PHI Patient's right to receive an accounting of disclosures ** Patient's right to request to amend their medical records
For this assignment, let's compare confidentiality procedures of three covered entities (a physician office, an acute care hospital and a HMO) to determine if their procedures follow HIPAA rules. Complete the following table and upload it to Canvas. Be sure to include a brief summary of your findings. Using the 3 confidentiality policy/procedures provided, analyze and compare them specifically related to the "Procedure Content" column in the table. Physician Office Confidentiality Procedure Acute Care Confidentiality Procedure Home Health & Hospice Confidentiality Procedures The first column of the table is the content you are looking for in each of the policy/procedures. Indicate for the physician office, acute care hospital and home health & hospice, whether or not the procedure content is present in the associated policy/procedure. Here is the table in a Word format.