Common use of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA Clause in Contracts

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA. To the extent that this act is pertinent to the services that the PROVIDER provides under this contract, the PROVIDER assures that it is in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requirements, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (The HITECH Act) of Title XIII, Division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and related regulations found at 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164, including the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule), the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic PHI (Security Rule), and the rules pertaining to Compliance and Investigations, Imposition of Civil Money Penalties, and Procedures for Hearings (Enforcement Rule), as amended from time to time, (hereafter collectively referred to as “HIPAA Regulations”); the Federal Confidentiality Law, 42 USC §§ 290dd-2 and underlying Regulations, 42 CFR Part 2 (“Part 2”). This includes the distribution of consumer handbooks and PROVIDER directories to consumers, and/or the HIPAA Privacy Notice.