Risk Management and HIPAA Compliance in Private Practice

There are possible risk issues in private practice, even before a client comes in for their first appointment. There are simple practices mental health professionals can use for everything from file keeping to paperwork to work effectively with their clients while decreasing potential risks in private practice.

In this 2-hour continuing education web conference, Amy L. Hooper, LCSW-C, CEAP will discuss steps clinicians can take to maintain or improve HIPAA compliance and confidentiality. Amy will identify several areas where many clinicians may not realize they are not maintaining HIPAA compliance. 

Amy will explore risks associated with electronic communication, encryption, and phone use and explain how these risks can be minimized. Amy will discuss how to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule, what a Risk Assessment Plan is, and why it is needed in private practice. She will also highlight professional risks and the effective use of consultation while seeing clients in private practice. 

This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Recognize the importance of risk management in private practice. 
2. Create a risk management plan for one's therapy practice.
3. Apply a risk management plan to increase the security of one's practice. 
4. Summarize the many different areas where HIPAA compliance is crucial in a private practice, including electronics, office space, and paperwork.
5. Explain how risk management can prevent common pitfalls of maintaining a private practice.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

GoodTherapy.org is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. 

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium or Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no cost. Not yet a Premium or Pro Member? Mental health professionals can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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