• HIPAA Privacy

• HIPAA Compliance
• Secure E-mail

• Web Site Privacy

HIPAA

PRIVACY

AmeriHealth is committed to protecting the privacy of our members' personal health information. Part of that commitment is complying with the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which requires us to take additional measures to protect personal information and to inform our members about those measures.

Notice of Privacy Practices

• Notice of Privacy Practices (effective April 14, 2003) describes how AmeriHealth may use and disclose a member's personal health information and how a member of an AmeriHealth health plan (including: AmeriHealth HMO, AmeriHealth PPO, Open Access, Traditional) can get access to this information.

HIPAA Privacy Forms

• Authorization Form – to be used by members to authorize AmeriHealth to release health information.
• Personal Representative Form – to be used by members who wish to appoint another person as their personal representative.

General HIPAA Information

• HIPAA Compliance project update
• How to Retrieve Secure E-mail from AmeriHealth
• Privacy Guide for our group customers and business partners

HIPAA Transactions for Providers

• For information about HIPAA compliant transactions, visit the Provider Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) section.

HIPAA Inquiries

If you have questions regarding HIPAA, please contact:

• HIPAA Privacy: submit an email
• HIPAA Security: submit an email