Personal Document Shredding

Personal Document Shredding

Residential Document Shredding

Boston area residents have a new choice for their document shredding service, unlike the other large corporations, our company offers area residents a chance to safely secure their material at some of the lowest prices in Metro Boston. Our Residential Document Shredding service offers residents and local small home based businesses the opportunity to safely shred documents and comply with all HIPAA and privacy laws.

Residential Document shredding Features:

Rigorous Security: Our employees are screened and hand picked to meet our security standards, they are trained to handle all your material in safe and secure manner. Our fleet is inspected to meet and exceed all Department Of Transportation (DOT) regulations. Our plant is secured to meet all FACTA, HIPAA, SOX and Privacy laws requirements.

Convenient Service: We operate our shredding service business with your convenience in mind, we operate seven days a week and after hours. We schedule our truck to show up at your facility and remove all your material at a time that is convenient for you. This is subject to availability. Usually, off site shredding service can be scheduled within 24 Hrs. Area resident who can drop off their documents and material at at Lowell MA office, can do so any time without preset appointments.

Low Flat Rates: We love to save people money! We have low overhead, we believe in fair pricing. Unlike the other big company, we pay no loyalty fees, no Multi-million dollar CEO’s and no greedy stock holders! Our shredding flat rates are guaranteed to save you money. Our flat rates can be as low as 89¢ / Lbs. No hidden fees, no transportation charges and no contracts. Pay as you go.

Choice: We make Residential Shredding Service simple and affordable! Other big companies may not be interested in your business because they are focused on Business to business, our company on the other hand is eager to help you shred your material in safe and economical manner. Area residents from MA, NH, ME and RI have a choice when it comes to residential shredding service: Drop Off or Off Site Shredding. Both options are guaranteed to save you money.

We proudly serve the following Metro Areas:

Abington Acton Acushnet Adams Agawam Alford Amesbury Amherst Andover Arlington Ashburnham Ashby Ashfield Ashland Athol Attleboro Attleborough Auburn Avon Ayer Barnstable Barre Becket Bedford Belchertown Bellingham Belmont Berkley Berlin Bernardston Beverly Billerica Blackstone Blandford Bolton Boston Bourne Boxboro Boxborough Boxford Boylston Bradford Braintree Brewster Bridgewater Brimfield Brockton Brookfield Brookline Buckland Burlington Cambridge Canton Carlisle Carver Charlemont Charlestown Charlton Chatham Chelmsford Chelsea Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chicopee Chilmark Clarksburg Clinton Cohasset Colebrook Colrain Concord Conway Copake Cumberland Cummington Dalton Dana Danvers Dartmouth Dedham Deerfield Dennis Dighton Douglas Dover Dracut Dudley Dunstable Duxbury East Bridgewater East Brookfield East Longmeadow Easthampton Easton Edgartown Egremont Enfield Erving Essex Everett Fairhaven Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg FloridaFoxborough Framingham Franklin Freetown Gardner Gay Head Georgetown Gill GloucesterGoshen Gosnold Grafton Granby Granville Great Barrington Greenfield Greenwich Groton Groveland Hadley Halifax Hamilton Hampden Hancock Hanover Hanson Hardwick Harvard Harwich Hately Hatfield Haverhill Hawley Heath Hillsdale Hingham Hinsdale Holbrook Holden Holland Holliston Holyoke Hopedale Hopkinton Hubbardston Hudson Hull Huntington Hyde Park Ipswich Kent Kingston Lakeville Lancaster Lanesborough Lawrence Lee Leicester Lenox Leominster Leverett Lexington Leyden Lincoln Littleton Longmeadow Lowell Ludlow Lunenburg Lynn Lynnfield Malden Manchester Mansfield Marblehead Marion Marlborough Marshfield Mashpee Mattapoisett Maynard Medfield Medford Medway Melrose Mendon Merrimac Methuen Middleborough Middlefield Middleton Milford Millbury Millis Millville Milton Monroe Monson Montague Monterey Montgomery Mount Washington Nahant Nantucket Natick Needham New Ashford New Bedford New Braintree New Marlborough New Salem Newbury Newburyport Newton Norfolk North Adams North Andover North Attleboro North Attleborough North Brookfield North Canaan North Hadley North Reading North Smithfield Northampton Northborough Northbridge Northfield Northridge Norton Norwell Norwood Oak Bluffs Oakham Orange Orleans Orton Otis Oxford Palmer Paxton Peabody Pelham Pembrook Pembrooke Pepperell Peru Petersham Phillipston Pittsfield Plainfield Plainville Plymouth Plympton Prescott Princeton Provincetown Quincy Randolph Raynham Reading Rehoboth Revere Richmond Rochester Rockland Rockport Rowe Rowley Royalston Russell Rutland Salem Salisbury Sandisfield Sandwich Saugus Savoy Scituate Seekonk Sharon Sheffield Shelburne Sherborn Shirley Shrewsburty Shrewsbury Shutesbury Somers Somerset Somerville South Hadley Southampton Southborough Southbridge Southwick Spencer Springfield Sterling Stockbridge Stoneham Stoughton Sturbridge Sudbury Suffield Sunderland Sutton Swampscott Swansea Taunton Templeton Tewksbury Tisbury Tolland Topsfield Townsend Truro Tyngsborough Tyringham Upton Uxbridge Vernon Wakefield Wales Walpole Waltham Ware Wareham WarehamHarrisburg Warren Warwick Washington Watertown Wayland Webster Wellesley Wellfleet Wendell Wenham West Boylston West Bridgewater West Brookfield West Newbury West Springfield West Stockbridge West Tisbury Westborough Westfield Westford Westhampton Westminster Weston Westport Westwood Weymouth Whatley Whitingham Whitman Wilbraham Williamsburg Williamstown Wilmington Winchendon Winchester Windsor Winthrop Woburn Woonsocket Worcester Worthington Wrentham 

Personal Document Shredding

HIPAA Document Privacy

HIPAA Privacy Rules

Under the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, covered entities are obliged to observe proper methods of disposing protected health information (PHI), of any form. Appropriate measures of disposal are required to prevent and limit any unauthorized use and access to the information. Furthermore, covered entities handling electronic PHI are required to impose policies and procedures to facilitate the removal, termination and final disposal of PHI in electronic format including the storage media housing the information.

Common Misconceptions Regarding HIPAA

• State laws always supersede contrary provisions in HIPAA. Fact: MA State laws only supercede HIPAAwhen a state’s statutes are stiffer.
• Hospitals and insurance companies are exempt from HIPAA 
• Fact: With extremely few exceptions, all hospitals, health plan administrators, clearinghouses, service providers, and all medical professionals are subject to HIPAA .
• HIPAA regulates only electronically transmitted data. 
• Fact: HIPAA applies to all forms of communication: written, verbal and any form of electronic transmission
• Under HIPAA, the unintentional or accidental release of data cannot be treated as a criminal act. 
• Fact: Like any accident, the degree of negligence assigned to the act, as well as the defendant’s intent determine whether criminal or civil penalties apply.
• Information stored in archives by third parties is exempt. 
• Fact: The use of third party bailment agents does not relieve or exempt the responsible parties from their HIPAA duties and obligations.
• Not all practicing physicians are subject to HIPPA
• Fact: All practicing physicians are subject to some degree to HIPAA oversight.
• Dentists, optometrists, nurses, and pharmacists are exempted from HIPAA regulation. 
• Fact: All healthcare professionals who handle or create patient records are subject to HIPAA and other privacy statutes.
• Recycling is an acceptable form of disposal under HIPAA. 
• Fact: The practice of shredding medical records creates an anticipatable risk to both patient privacy and security, and is therefore a potential violation of HIPAA.
• In-house shredding programs prevent HIPAA related compliance issues from arising. 
• Fact. In-house shredding programs potentially create more HIPAA concerns than they resolve, because document destruction cannot be independently certified, and because proper security protocol is rarely practiced.
• HIPAA rules do not pertain to healthcare clearinghouses. 
• Fact: All such non-medical institutions serving the medical industry are subject to HIPAA.
• Verbal release of patient information is not a HIPAA violation. 
• Fact: Unless authorized, verbal communication of medical information is subject to HIPAA, as is all written and transmitted data.
• If improperly released information is not exploited, there is no violation of the law. 
• Fact: Improper release is in itself a violation of HIPAA. The act of failing to take reasonable care in protecting individually identifiable health information is likewise a violation.
• The release of individually identifiable information already in the public domain is not a HIPAAviolation. 
• Fact: The release of a patient’s most innocuous and publicly available individually identifiable information by a medical professional such as a license number or address can be interpreted as a violation of HIPAA.

Okay, Doctors et al, so maybe you’re still not convinced. Consider experiencing the following legal colonoscopy, sans anesthetic:

The maximum fines and penalties for failure to comply with the law is $250,000 and 10 years imprisonment. This of course doesn’t take into consideration the additional civil judgments and penalties that surely follow a criminal conviction.

What’s the best way to avoid a problem with the HIPAA police?

Release nothing without a release, employ a certified contractor and shred everything as soon as permitted, get incontrovertible proof, and make sure the world knows it. Prescription: Take some aspirin, and call us today 978-636-0301

HIPAA Document Privacy