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BACC Helps Insurance Companies Manage HIPAA Compliance

(Jan 07, 2008)-- The Business Associate Compliance Center, providing online Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance exclusively for Business Associates, is helping insurance companies and their agents provide transparency in privacy commitment to the public.

"With today's emphasis on providing quality information to consumers, the Business Associate Compliance Center is the ideal way to ensure the commitment to prospects and policyholders privacy is seamless between insurance company and agent," said Grant Peterson, J.D., compliance director of the Business
Associate Compliance Center. "The Compliance Center provides agents with everything from award winning training, to policies & procedures, forms,reports and all the tools necessary to manage HIPAA compliance, in the samemanner insurance companies conduct their compliance."

According to Peterson, insurance companies, agents and prospects or policyholders enjoy these benefits:
-- By recommending their agents subscribe to the Business Associate Compliance Center, insurance companies ensure continuity of privacy rights extend to the prospect or policyholder, whether information
comes from the company or agent;
-- Subscribing to the Compliance Center provides agents with the knowledge and tools to properly handle the prospects or policyholders confidential health information and meet the obligations of the Business Associate Agreement between the agent and the insurance company;
-- For the prospect or policyholder, receiving a seamless, consistent message and method for dealing with confidential health information is reassuring as they share their vital information. Understanding the commitment to privacy is even easier for the prospect or policyholder when the agent wears the HealthFront recognition pin for "Excellence in HIPAA Privacy and Patient Rights" training on their lapel.

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