âBAAâ is an acronym for  âbusiness associate agreement,â which is an industry term for what the HIPAA regulations call a âbusiness associate contract.â Same thing. BAAs are hybrid contractual and regulatory instruments, meaning they both satisfy HIPAA regulatory requirements and create liability between the parties.
Your health care provider MUST check your arm 2 or 3 days after the TB skin test, even if your arm looks OK to you. If you have a reaction to the test, it will look like a raised bump. Your health care provider will measure the size of the reaction. If there is a bump, it will go away in a few weeks.
The TB skin test. The. TB skin test may be used to ind out if you are infected with TB bacteria. You can. get a skin test at the health department or at your doctorâs ofice. A health care worker. will inject a small amount of testing luid (called tuberculin or PPD) into the skin on the. lower part of your arm.his is because it can take several weeks after infection for your immune system to react to the TB skin test. If your reaction to the second test is negative, you probably do not have TB infection. TB blood tests TB blood tests use a blood sample to ind out if you are infected with TB bacteria.