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Rowan Security Officer
ATTACHMENT A1
Is a Person or Entity a "Business Associate" and
Required to Enter Into a Written Business Associate Contract?
ATTACHMENT B2
Examples of Potential Business Associates
(This is not an all-inclusive list, nor is every arrangement listed necessarily a business associate. Use the attached flowchart and policy and procedure to analyze whether the relationship is a business associate relationship under HIPPA. Contact Legal Management at 2-4705 for assistance in the analysis.)
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Accountants |
Accounting services and firms |
Accreditation services |
Actuarial services |
Actuarial specialists |
Adjudication services |
Administrative services |
Advertisers |
Architects, builders, and contractors |
Asset-based lenders to healthcare facilities |
Attorneys |
Auditors |
Billing service companies |
Bulk mailing services |
Care management programs |
Civic groups and other local groups help out on ad hoc basis with patients who are hospitalized for a traumatic event or complicated illness (e.g., Shrine Temples, Ronald McDonald House) |
Coding providers and experts |
Community health management information systems |
Computer maintenance services and companies |
Consulting services |
Contract Research Organization – An entity used by pharmaceutical and device manufactures to monitor clinical research trials |
Copy services |
Data aggregation services |
Device manufactures |
Document storage and destruction vendors |
Financial service companies |
Government health data systems |
Hardware vendors |
Healthcare consultants (e.g., risk management, information technology, billing, coding and management) |
Hospital associations (National and State) |
HVAC vendors |
Independent contractors |
ATTACHMENT B 2 (continued)
Examples of Potential Business Associates
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Independent service organizations (ISO) offering clinical/biomedical engineering services |
Insurance brokers |
Interpreter services (both deaf and foreign language) |
Janitorial services; waste disposal and recycling services and companies |
Law firms, its staff and employees |
Lobbyists |
Mailing houses |
Maintenance contractors |
Management services |
Marketing services or firms |
Medical equipment testing/ repair services |
Medical or Physician associations (National and State) |
Medical record moving companies |
Medical record storage companies |
Medical record transcription services |
Medical software vendors |
Microfilm conversion providers |
Organ and Tissue Banks |
Organ procurement organization |
Outsourced document shredders |
Patient advocates |
Pharmaceutical companies |
Pharmaceutical manufacturers |
Pharmaceutical representatives |
Plasma Donor Centers |
Printing companies (ID cards and other member materials) |
Private health data systems |
Professional liability insurance carriers |
Recycling services and companies |
Software vendors |
Sperm Banks |
Temporary Staffing Companies |
Third-party administrators |
Trade associations |
Utilization management vendors |
Value added networks |
Vendors to business associates if involving the disclosure of independently identifiable health information |
Waste disposal services and companies |
ATTACHMENT
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Treatment, Payment and Health Care Operations
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- Resolution of internal grievances;
- Due diligence in connection with the sale or transfer of assets to a potential successor in interest, if the potential successor in interest is a covered entity or, following completion of the sale or transfer, will become a covered entity.
ATTACHMENT
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Business Associates Agreement Involving the Access to Protected Health Information
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ATTACHMENT E5
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[1] An expanded definition of the following terms, as well as the definition of other relevant terms are availableon RowanSOM website at https://www.rowan.edu/compliance. Terms used in this Business Associate Agreement but not otherwise defined shall have the meaning ascribed to those terms in HIPAA, the HITECH Act, and any current and future regulations promulgated under HIPAA and/or the HITECH Act. See 45 C.F.R. 160.103, 164.402 and 164.501.