HIPAA and Your Contract Employees
This week we are dealing with contract employees or independent contractors, either of which are usually paid by 1099. (Note: this does not mean that if they are given a 1099, they are an independent contractor – that is a whole different discussion.) One of our...
Do Business Associates need to report a breach to HHS, or to the Covered Entity?
Hello again, this question was posed to us this past week by one of our clients. Do Business Associates need to report a breach to HHS or should it be reported to the covered entity, and the covered entity report to HHS? This is a great question, and I’m going to...
What?!?! I need a BA Agreement with my email provider?
Here’s a question from our twitter feed this past week. Like most things in life, I think this needs a little more than 140 characters to explain, so here’s a blog post. Take that Twitter! A few weeks back, we addressed the question: Do you need a Business Associate...