HIPAA Compliance Kit, 6th Edition

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.

About the Author

Ofer Zur, Ph.D., is a consultant, licensed psychologist, writer, forensic consultant and lecturer from Sonoma, CA. He is a pioneer in the development of the ethical and effective managed-care-free psychotherapy practice and is a prolific writer and researcher. Dr. Zur taught for many years at several Bay Area, CA graduate schools and has trained thousands of psychotherapists in his seminars, lectures and private consultations on Ethics with Soul, Therapeutic Boundaries, HIPAA, Dual Relationships, Standard of Care, Domestic Violence, Speed and Technology, Victims, and many more topics. He co-edited the landmark book, Dual Relationships and Psychotherapy, authored the mighty useful HIPAA Compliance Kit and The Complete Fee-for-Service Private Practice Handbook and has published dozens of cutting-edge and widely cited articles and book chapters on therapeutic ethics, standard of care, boundaries and dual relationships. His book, Boundaries In Psychotherapy, the most comprehensive book on therapeutic boundaries to date, was published by APA Books. Dr. Zur is the director of the Zur Institute at www.ZurInstitute.com, which offers a unique and innovative online continuing education to psychologists, social workers, MFTs and counselors. He is one of the most prominent consultants and forensic experts in the area of therapeutic boundaries.