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Ciood tIeal[h Sarvices Inc. <br />ATTACHMENT G <br />CABARRUS COUNTY <br />pEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES <br />BUSINESS ASSOCIATE ADDENDUM <br />This Agreement is made effective the 1e° day of July, 2008, by and between Cabarrus <br />County Department of Social Servicea (name of County Agency) ("Covered ~ntity") and <br />Good Health Servicea, Inc. (name of contractor) ("Businesa Aasociate") (collectively the <br />"Partiea"). <br />1. BACKGROUND <br />a. Covered Entity and Businesa Asaociate are partiea to a contract entitled (identify <br />contract) Good I~ealth Servicea, Inc. (the "Contract"), whereby Busineas Associate <br />agrees to perform certain servicea for or on behalf of Covered Entity. <br />b. Covered Entity is an organizational unit of Cabarrus County (the "County") that has <br />been designated in whole or in part by the County as a health care coinponent for <br />purposea of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. <br />c. The relationehip between Covered Entity and Business Aseociate ia such that the <br />Parties believe Business Associate is or may be a"businese associate° within the <br />meaning of the H1YAA Privacy Rule. <br />d. The Parties enter into thia Buainess Aseociate Addendum to the Contract with the <br />intention of complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule proviaion that a covered entity <br />may disclose probected health information to a businese associate, and may allow a <br />bueinesa asaociate to create or receive protected heath information on its behalf, if <br />the covered entity obtains satisfactory asaurances that the buainess associate will <br />appropriately eafeguard the information. <br />2. DEFINITIONS <br />Unleae some other meaning is clearly indicated by the context, the following terms shall <br />have the following meaning in this Agreement: <br />a. "HIPAA" means ~he Administrative Simplification Provieione, Sections 261 through <br />264, of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, <br />Public Law 104-181. <br />b. "Individual" ehall have the same meaning as the term "individual" in 45 <br />CFR160.103 and shall include a person who qualifiea as a personal repreaentative in <br />accordance with 45 CFR 164.502(g). <br />c. "Privacy Rule" shall mean the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable <br />Health Information at 46 CFR part 160 and part 164, subparts A and E. <br />d. "Protected Health Information" ehall have the same meaning ae the term "protected <br />health information" in 45 CFR 160.103, limited to the information created or <br />received by Buainesa Aasociate Fram or on behalf of Covered Entity. <br />Contract-HIPAA (06/04) ~~ 3 Page 1 of 1 <br />