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<br />Good Health Services Inc. <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT G <br /> <br />CABARRUS COUNTY <br />DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES <br />BUSINESS ASSOCIATE ADDENDUM <br /> <br />This Agreement is made effective the 1st day of July, 2006, by and .between Cabarrus <br />County Department of Social Services (name of County Agency) ("Covered Entity") and <br />Good Health Services, Inc. (name of contractor) ("Business Associate") (collectively the <br />"Parties"). <br /> <br />1. BACKGROUND <br /> <br />a. Covered Entity and Business Associate are parties to a contract entitled (identify <br />contract) Good Health Services. Inc. (the "Contract"), whereby Business Associate <br />agrees to perform certain services for or on behalf of Covered Entity. <br /> <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 component for <br />purposes of the HIP AA Privacy Rule. <br /> <br />c. The relationship between Covered Entity and Business Associate is such that the <br />Parties believe Business Associate is or may be a "business associate" within the <br />meaning of the HIP AA. Privacy Rule. <br /> <br />d. The Parties enter into this Business Associate Addendum to the Contract with the <br />intention of complying with the HIPAA Privacy Rule provision that a covered entity <br />may disclose protected health information to a business associate, and may allow a <br />business associate to create or receive protected heath information on its behalf, if <br />the covered entity obtains satisfactory assurances that the business associate will <br />appropriately safeguard the information. <br /> <br />2. DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />Unless some other meaning is clearly indicated by the context, the following terms shall <br />have the following meaning in this Agreement: <br /> <br />a. "HIPAA" means the Administrative Simplification Provisions, Sections 261 through <br />264, of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, <br />Public Law 104-191. <br /> <br />b. "Individual" shall have the same meaning as the term "individual" in 45 <br />CFR160.103 and shall include a person who qualifies as a personal representative in <br />accordance with 45 CFR 164.502(g). <br /> <br />c. "Privacy Rule" shall mean the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable <br />Health Information at 45 CFR part 160 and part 164, subparts A and E. <br /> <br />d. "Protected Health Information" shall have the same meaning as the term "protected <br />health information" in 45 CFR 160.103, limited to the information created or <br />received by Business Associate from or on behalf of Covered Entity. <br /> <br />Contract-HIPAA (06/04) <br /> <br />"F- \6 <br /> <br />Page 1 of 4 <br />