This HIPAA Compliance Kit aims to help psychotherapists, primarily in solo,
private practice, to become compliant with HIPAA regulations. The Kit provides you with the most basic and practical understanding of the regulations and offers practical ways to achieve compliance. Unlike the original lengthy and hard-to-follow legislation, this kit is written in simple, understandable language.With basic knowledge of your state's mental health laws many psychotherapists may be able to apply the regulations, as described in this kit, to their practices. This kit uses parts of California law as an example of the preemption analysis and provides a summary of the important aspects of the preemption analysis for California. It also describes the areas where HIPAA law is inconsistent with APA, CAMFT, CASW or ACA Codes of Ethics and provides ethical and legal decision-making processes to resolve conflicts that therapists are facing when implementing HIPAA regulations into their practices.
