Hi Misshell,
I believe the author's name is Jonathan P. Tomes. Here is a link to
the full "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996"
document:
http://healthadmin.jbpub.com/mhc/readings/chapter%2034/jhcf%2025-2.p55-62.pdf
An 'about the author' page from: http://www.educode.com/Images/jptomes.htm says:
Jonathan P. Tomes is a health care attorney practicing in the greater
Kansas City area in the law firm of Tomes & Dvorak. He is a nationally
recognized authority on the legal requirements for medical
information, having written Healthcare Records: A Practical Legal
Guide for the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA),
Healthcare Records Manual for Warren Gorham & Lamont, Healthcare
Records Management, Disclosure & Retention for Probus Publishing and
HFMA (now provided through McGraw-Hill Healthcare Education Group),
Compliance Guide to Electronic Health Records and Compliance Guide to
Electronic Health Payments, both for Faulkner & Gray, and Healthcare
Privacy and Confidentiality for Probus Publishing. His other health
law books include Responding to AIDS; Regulation of the Healthcare
Industry; Informed Consent; Fraud, Waste, and Abuse and Safe Harbors;
Healthcare Environmental Law; and Medical Staff Privileges. His
articles have appeared in Health Data Management, Medical Claims
Management, Credit Card Management, Healthcare Financial Management,
and Journal of Health Care Finance, among others.
Jon is a skilled attorney, having litigated hundreds of cases,
including medical malpractice, Public Health Service Disciplinary
Actions, Merit Systems Protection Board cases, physician discipline
cases, and criminal cases. Before he retired from the U.S. Army, he
was a criminal defense attorney, a military judge presiding over
hundreds of courts-martial, and Chief of the Special Claims Section of
the U.S. Army Claims Service representing the government in overseas
medical malpractice claims against the government. He has presented
programs for Faulkner & Gray, HFMA, the American Bar Association, the
American Society of Association Executives, Business Network, Lorman
Business Centers, and Heritage Professional Education, and he has
taught at a law school in Chicago. Jon is a member of the American
Health Lawyers Association, the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Health Care Finance, and the Board of Advisors for the University of
Kansas Medical Schools? Mini-Medical School and is an associate member
of the American Health Information Management Association. He is a
member of the Illinois, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri bars and the
federal district courts for the Northern District of Illinois (trial
bar), the District of Kansas, and the Western District of Missouri.
Tomes & Dvorak provides health law services, among others, including
health information law, medical malpractice, representation before
peer review and credentialing committees, fraud and abuse evaluation
and defense, and legal review of managed care entities and operations.
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