Published May 12, 2012
Bortaz, MSN, RN
2,628 Posts
i just saw an article on foxnews.com, and right down at the bottom, it mentioned that something was blah blah required by law...due to it being a hippa requirement.
ugh. can't blame them, though, when even registered nurses on this forum regularly post about their own hungry hungry hippo violations.
the irs list of americans who renounced their citizenship is required by law, in accordance with the health insurance portability and accountability act (hippa) of 1996, the site explains. this listing contains the name of each individual giving up his or her united states citizenship.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/11/facebook-co-founder-renounces-citizenship-ahead-of-ipo/
please, nurses. don't enable the hippos. lead by example.
Nascar nurse, ASN, RN
2,218 Posts
yep, if we could just teach the world that it is really [color=#b22222]hipaa ([color=#b22222]health [color=#b22222]insurance [color=#b22222]portability and [color=#b22222]accountability [color=#b22222]act)
and not hippo or even hippa.
wooh, BSN, RN
1 Article; 4,383 Posts
If only a group of hungry hungry hippos could eat every HIPPA ever written.
PacoUSA, BSN, RN
3,445 Posts
My pet peeve on this site: when nurses cannot properly identify the letters HIPAA. Glad I am not the only one that notices. My Leadership course professor literally misspelled HIPAA as HIPPA on several Powerpoint slides .. the same professor that is extremely picky with a recent writing assignment. We as a class pointed out to her during lecture that HIPAA was spelled wrong. Vindicated!
Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN
20,908 Posts
One of my pet peeves as well!!!! HIPAA!!!!
KelRN215, BSN, RN
1 Article; 7,349 Posts
I really enjoy that they correctly say it's the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and then call it HIPPA. What does expatriation have to do with HIPAA, though?
Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP
4 Articles; 5,259 Posts
You know what drives me even battier than reading it (HIPPA) on here? When management sends out emails and gets it wrong!!!!!
Lynx25, LPN
331 Posts
Poor Hippo. What did it ever do to anyone? It really doesn't deserve this.
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
10 Articles; 19,044 Posts
Having saved my homecare employer $20,000 performing HIPAA assessment of agency processes, I perfected it's spelling typing acronym 500 + times.
pinkfluffybunny
162 Posts
No citizens aren't eligible for Medicaid/Medicare, maybe?
EquuszARNP
132 Posts
But apparently, not your use of apostrophes.
elprup, BSN, RN
1,005 Posts
Yep, love it when the big wigs mispell it and then look at me like I am wrong trying to explain their mistake!