​HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices
You can read our HIPAA Form here
当クリニックのHIPAA(英文)はこちらからご覧になれます

What is a HIPAA?

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was passed by Congress in 1996. 
HIPAA does the following:
  • Provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs;
  • Reduces health care fraud and abuse;
  • Mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electronic billing and other processes; and
  • Requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information

The HIPAA Privacy regulations require health care providers and organizations, as well as their business associates, to develop and follow procedures that ensure the confidentiality and security of protected health information (PHI) when it is transferred, received, handled, or shared.  This applies to all forms of PHI, including paper, oral, and electronic, etc.  Furthermore, only the minimum health information necessary to conduct business is to be used or shared.
(Original text from:DHCS.GOV)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Actの略で、
​日本語では「医療保険の相互運用性と説明責任に関する法律」と呼ばれています。

​What is the HIPAA notice I receive from my doctor and health plan?

Your health care provider and health plan must give you a notice that tells you how they may use and share your health information. It must also include your health privacy rights. In most cases, you should receive the notice on your first visit to a provider or in the mail from your health plan. You can also ask for a copy at any time.

Why do I have to sign a form?
The law requires your doctor, hospital, or other health care provider to ask you to state in writing that you received the notice.
  • The law does not require you to sign the “acknowledgement of receipt of the notice.” 
  • Signing does not mean that you have agreed to any special uses or disclosures (sharing) of your health records. 
  • Refusing to sign the acknowledgement does not prevent a provider or plan from using or disclosing health information as HIPAA permits. 
  • If you refuse to sign the acknowledgement, the provider must keep a record of this fact.
Original text from hhs.gov