Are LTCi plans considered health plans?
Transmission and encryption 1) When you say transmitting does that mean emailing the carriers Health applications to them? Or faxing them? How does faxing applications with health information pertain to this law? Some carriers have it go to computer files directly, but many still have actual fax machines, available for viewing by anyone that walks by. How can this be resolved under the new rule? A: If you email an application it is considered a transmission. Also if either the out bound or the recipient is using a fax server, this also is considered a transmission and must be encrypted. If you are faxing to another fax machine the document is encrypted. A phone call in advance of the fax can verify that the appropriate person will be available to collect the faxed documents from the machine and that the documents will not sit on the machine and possibly be viewed by someone who is not authorized to read the application. We recommend a cover sheet that requests notification to the sende
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