Mass General Brigham is part of an organized health care arrangement (“OHCA”) pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (collectively, “HIPAA”). HIPAA permits the OHCA participants to share patient health information and records as permitted under HIPAA to conduct joint activities such as providing health care to patients, education, quality assessment and improvement activities, utilization review, outcome reporting, payment activities, and other joint activities.
The following entities participate in the OHCA:
- Mass General Brigham Incorporated
- Mass General Brigham Urgent Care, LLC
- Mass General Brigham Specialty Pharmacy, Inc.
- Mass General Brigham Medical Group, Inc.
- Mass General Brigham AmSurg, Inc.
- Mass General Brigham Home Care, Inc.
- The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc.
- Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization, Inc.
- Harbor Medical Associates, Inc.
- South Shore Endoscopy Center, Inc.
- Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Inc.
- The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital
- Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Inc.
- The McLean Hospital Corporation
- Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, Inc.
- WNR, Inc.
- Nantucket Cottage Hospital
- Nantucket Physician Organization, Inc.
- Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Inc.
- CD Practice Associates, Inc.
- VNA & Hospice of Cooley Dickinson, Inc.
- Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
- Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation
- North Shore Medical Center, Inc. d/b/a Salem Hospital
- North Shore Physicians Group, Inc.
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital
- Newton-Wellesley Medial Group, Inc.
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates, Inc.
- The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Corporation
- Spaulding Hospital-Cambridge, Inc.
- Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands Corporation
- Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Center Brighton, Inc.
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan, Inc.
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan Select, LLC
- Mass General Brigham Health Insurance Company
- Mass General Brigham Community Physicians, Inc.
- Merrimack Valley Endoscopy Center, LLC