HIPAA Training in California

HIPAA training in California provides onsite and offsite training programs that allow medical professionals to receive certification in one of the many areas of specialty offered by HIPAA.  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) federal law was enforced in 1996 to reform incremental healthcare. Most training programs in California offer comprehensive and multi-level formats that meet the needs of the student. Courses are led by one instructor when onsite, whereas online training programs are led by an instructor in real-time. Students are available to log into the program from all over the world. The online program is designed with the student’s flexibility in mind. Most certifications require three to four training hours to become certified.

California College San Diego

Bachelor
BS in Health Science *Online
San Diego

ITT Technical Institute

Associate
School of Health Sciences
Anaheim, Lathrop, Oxnard, Rancho Cordova, San Bernardino, San Diego, Sylmar, Torrance

What is HIPAA Certification?

The shift from paper to electronic mediums has made sensitive healthcare information more accessible to insurance companies and other entities.

Protecting the patient's privacy has always been one of the priorities of healthcare institutions. However, previous legal protections proved to be inadequate and inconsistent. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has come up with a new privacy standard with a minimum set of requirements: the HIPAA.

Privacy Rule

The Human Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is designed to balance individual privacy needs with societal needs. The HIPAA has also been adopted to ensure that health insurance coverage will continue even after a patient has left his employer. It has a privacy rule that regulates how information can be disclosed to certain entities.

Other provisions under this rule include:

  • Provides patients with more control on how their health information will be disclosed
  • Sets limitations on the use and release of health information
  • Establishes appropriate safeguards to healthcare providers while protecting patient privacy
  • Holds violators accountable with criminal and civil penalties
  • Generally limits the release of sensitive information
  • Gives patients the right to get a copy of their own healthcare records and accommodate their request for corrections
  • Empowers individuals to control the use and disclosure of their information
  • Allows workers to enroll into new health coverage when they lose their previous coverage
  • Forbids discrimination based on health status
  • Preserves the state's responsibility in regulating healthcare insurance

Giving the HIPAA Certificate to a patient

The HIPAA Certificate is covered in the Title I or the "portability" practice of the HIPAA provisions. The certificate gives evidence of healthcare coverage should a person become ineligible for health insurance coverage because of job change or marriage among others. It is used to establish a person's right to purchase new coverage from another health insurer with no exclusions from his pre-existing medical conditions.

Who is entitled to receive it?

The HIPAA certification of credible covert should be automatically given free of charge by the issuer when a person loses his coverage under his healthcare plan. He becomes entitled to the HIPAA certificate when he elects for COBRA continuous coverage or exhausts his COBRA coverage. It should also include information on the timeframe when he or his dependents had been covered including any length of waiting period of his or his dependents.

As of July 2005, the HIPAA certificate of credible coverage is also required to include the educational background that describes the individual's portability rights. In the case when certificate is not received or if any information on the HIPAA certificate is inaccurate, the individual should get in touch with the issuer. Anyone who cannot get the HIPAA certificate can show other evidences of credible coverage such as pay stubs, letter from the doctor, or an explanation of benefits.

Other cities in California

    Online Schools

    The following is a list of schools that offer online HIPAA Training programs.

    Independence University

    • AS - Allied Health
    • MS - Public Health

    OTHER COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN CALIFORNIA

    Career Networks Institute

    3420 Bristol Street Suite 209, Costa Mesa, California 92626
    Telephone:(714) 437-9697
    http://www.cnicollege.edu

    Loma Linda University

    Loma Linda, , California 92350
    Telephone:(909) 558-1000
    http://www.llu.edu

    Ventura Adult and Continuing Education

    5200 Valentine Rd, Ventura, California 93003
    Telephone:(805) 289-7925
    http://www.tdctraining.com/