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Civil Rights and Conscience
File a civil rights and conscience complaint
If you believe that a civil rights organization discriminated against you or someone else because of race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex, or religion, in violation of federal civil rights laws under HHS jurisdiction, or otherwise violated federal conscience laws of the provider, you may file a civil rights complaint and conscience with the OCR.
A civil rights-covered organization includes programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance from HHS and may include programs or activities that are directly managed by HHS and programs or activities that receive federal assistance from HHS. In the event of a disability discrimination complaint, a covered organization may also include services, programs, or activities conducted by state and local government agencies and their political subdivisions. You can file a civil rights complaint and conscience for yourself or someone else.
Below are some examples of potential covered organizations (including institutions and staff) that must comply with federal civil rights laws: - State and local government agencies that are responsible for health management
- Agencies of state and local government assistance and social services
- hospitals
- Medicaid and Medicare Providers
- Doctors and other private health care practitioners with Medicaid patients
- Family Medical Centers
- Community Mental Health Centers
- Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers
- Nursing homes
- Foster care families
- Public and private adoption and custody agencies
- Day Care Centers
- Senior Centers
- Elderly and Infant Nutrition Programs
- Any entity established under the Affordable Care Act, including state and federal health insurance exchanges
- health plans or companies
- LCD
- Pharmacies
- Homeless shelters
- Health Researchers
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Medical Information Privacy
File a complaint about a breach of confidentiality of health information
Complain about a security breach
If you believe that a HIPAA or business partnership entity has violated the Privacy, Security, or Breach Notification (HIPAA) Rules, you can file a complaint with the OCR about a privacy and security violation of health information. OCR may investigate complaints about violations of the HIPAA Rules against HIPAA-covered entities and their business partners. You can file a complaint about the privacy and security of health information for yourself or for another person.
The following are HIPAA covered entities that must comply with Federal Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Regulations: - health plans
- Clearing Health Centers
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- провайдеры медицинских услуг, которые ведут часть своей деятельности в электронном виде, используя транзакции, покрываемые HIPAA
Деловой партнер HIPAA - это физическое или юридическое лицо, которое создает, получает, хранит или передает защищенную медицинскую информацию от имени покрываемой организации для выполнения покрываемой функции или предоставляет определенные услуги такой покрываемой организации или для нее, когда предоставление услуг включает раскрытие защищенной медицинской информации. Ниже приведены некоторые примеры потенциальных бизнес-ассоциированных лиц HIPAA: - Другие покрываемые организации
- Юридические фирмы или адвокаты, которые представляют организации, покрываемые HIPAA
- Услуги по безопасному уничтожению/утилизации документов
- Провайдеры облачных услуг, серверов и других ИТ-услуг
- Поставщики услуг устного или письменного перевода.
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