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Contract #1 22-23 <br /> (Contractor) Empowering Lives <br /> Lee County Department of Social Services/Human Services <br /> DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES <br /> BUSINESS ASSOCIATE ADDENDUM <br /> This Agreement is made effective the Z(f' day of Ai)12-1 1- , 20 by and between Lee <br /> County Department of Social Services ("Covered Entity") and Empowering Live <br /> Guardianship Services, LLC ("Business Associate") (collectively the "Parties"). <br /> 1. BACKGROUND <br /> a. Covered Entity and Business Associate are parties to a contract entitled (identify <br /> contract) Guardianship Services (the "Contract"), whereby Business Associate <br /> agrees to perform certain services for or on behalf of Covered Entity. <br /> b. Covered Entity is an organizational unit of Lee County as the Lee County <br /> Department of Social Services (DSS) as a health care component for purposes of the <br /> HIPAA Privacy Rule. <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 HIPAA Privacy Rule. <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 /> 2. DEFINITIONS <br /> Unless 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 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> e. `Required By Law" shall have the same meaning as the term "required by law" in 45 <br /> CFR 164.11,3. <br /> f. "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and <br /> Human Services or his designee. <br /> 1 <br />