Hippa Regulation

Social workers must abide by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), in addition to the NASW Code of Ethics, in their work.

If you have gone to a doctor’s appointment within the last few decades, you have likely signed a HIPAA form. HIPAA protects a patient’s mental and physical health information and allows the patient access to records. Under the law, the patient can also distribute those records to other parties. As with mandated reporting, there are exceptions to HIPAA protection, such as in cases of abuse or public health threats.

In this Assignment, you learn more about HIPAA regulations and reflect on your exposure to HIPAA as a patient.

To prepare:

Review the Learning Resources on HIPAA.

Watch the?Southside Community Services?video in this week’s Learning Resources, and reflect on how HIPAA informs the interaction between the social worker and the client in the video.

Think back on an experience as a patient in a healthcare setting where you signed a form related to HIPAA. Reflect on how your rights were conveyed to you.

Submit?a reflection paper in which you:

Identify and describe two HIPAA regulations for healthcare providers.

Describe a time when you have signed a form related to HIPAA (e.g., doctor’s office).

Reflect on your knowledge of HIPAA at that time. Explain whether or not your provider adequately informed you of your rights.

Explain how HIPAA supports or doesn’t support the NASW Code of Ethics.

Apply concepts and material from this week’s resources to inform your paper. A standard academic paper is written in 12-point font and double-spaced.

Cournoyer, B. R. (2017). The social work skills workbook (8th ed.). Cengage.

oChapter 5, “Social Work Values and Ethical Decision Making” (pp. 157–204)

oChapter 7, “Preparing” (pp. 249–272)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2021, May 17).?HIPAA for professionalsLinks to an external site.. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/index….

Walden University, LLC. (2016). Southside Community Services: Mrs. Bargas, episode 3?[Video]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com/