How HIPAA Violations Affect The Medical Billing Process HCR/220 September 23. 2012 How HIPAA Violations Affect The Medical Billing Process HIV and AIDS are two very serious diseases which first came known and reported in the U.S. in 1981. Today it is estimated that 1.7 million people in the U.S. have been infected with HIV since that date 619‚000 people have already died from it. The CDC‚ (Center For Disease Control) estimates that every one in five people living with HIV‚ are unaware that
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HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In 1996 the US Congress authorized this to regulate the disclosure of a person’s health information. Privacy Rule defines how covered entities use individually-recognizable health information or the PHI (Personal Health Information). Covered entities’ is a term often used in HIPAA-compliant guidelines. A covered entity can be a provider or insurance company. HIPAA laws are designed to simplify administrative side of the healthcare
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regulations involving the use of medical records or other health information. According to the department’s website‚ consumers filed almost 50‚000 complaints regarding health care privacy between 2003 and 2009. Patient Rights Under the federal HIPAA Privacy Rule‚ patients have several rights regarding their medical information. The privacy regulations apply to many kinds of health information including patient medical records‚ electronic health records‚ billing information and conversations between doctors
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You Decide Activity Assignment Responses HIPAA Rules Privacy Rules: The privacy rule is a standard rule that addresses the use and disclosure of individual healthcare information. Your job as a health care organization is to implement‚ enforce‚ and protect the individual private information. They are important because it the organization responsibility to understand and control how the individual health information is well protected‚ while allowing the flow of health information needed
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How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process HCR/220 October 7‚ 2012 How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process In this paper we will discuss how HIPAA violations affect the medical billing process and why HIV and AIDS information is more sensitive than other types of health conditions. We will also examine the social‚ legal‚ and ethical ramifications of improper information disclosure. In 1996 on August 21‚ the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
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Congress intended HIPAA to protect individually identifiable health information. Any entity‚ including a physician’s office‚ a hospital or other health care facility‚ or an insurer that deals with personal health information must follow strict rules about how to handle that information to avoid disclosing it to someone not authorized to see it. For example‚ Health and Human Services allows physicians and insurance companies to exchange individually identifiable health information to pay a health claim
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HIPAA Abstract The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act‚ or better known as (HIPAA) began in 1996 as an Act to help individuals keep their health insurance as they moved from one job to another. As the future brought new advancements HIPAA evolved to include much more than portability. HIPAA now includes many complex rules to protect patient privacy along with the use of information technology that transfers medical records. HIPAA Nearly a decade ago‚ lawmakers tried to
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Telecommunications In Healthcare HCS/482 A description of telecommunications with examples of technology used in your workplace · The advantages‚ disadvantages‚ and importance of telecommunications in health care · Where you see telecommunications in 5 years Telecommunication In Healthcare Introduction The half-century following the Civil War witnessed an epochal transformation in American telecommunications. In 1900 the telephone network became the first electrical communications medium
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Batson When it comes to HIPAA‚ ICD‚ CPT‚ and HCPCS on how they influence each of the ten steps of the medical billing process‚ HIPAA influences the billing process by maintaining HIPAA compliance‚ as far as confidentiality and the handling of the medical record. When it comes to ICD‚ CPT‚ and HCPCS they influence the billing process they are the reference source where the codes are contained that are used to find the diagnosis‚ procedure‚ and the supply codes. But the HIPAA‚ ICD‚ CPT‚ and HCPCS they
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Confidentiality Rules Upon arriving at a new physician’s office a patient is given a clipboard with several papers on it‚ and is told to fill it out and return to receptionist when finished. What are all these papers‚ and why do they need to be filled out? These are actually very important to the care that the patient will receive. Every time a patient is seen by health care professional important information is gathered. This information is only to be shared between the physician and the health professionals
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