HIPAA Billing
HIPAA Billing is something Millin Medical could not do without
HIPAA Billing is compliant with HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which was made a law by U.S. Congress in 1996.
Millin Associates LLC of New York offers completely compliant HIPAA Billing
for all of its clients, so they know that all of their patients healthcare information is secure with us.
HIPAA Billing protects health insurance coverage for families who lose or change their jobs.
It also sets national standards regarding automatic electronic health care transactions to ensure privacy and security, and establishes national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans and employers. These are standards that also apply to New York's Medicaid program.
Some other things you should do to comply with HIPAA billing regualtions are; specify all of your policies and safeguards which protect the integrity of your patients health data in a risk management program. They can outline things as simple as using passwords and firewalls on your computers, locking computer room doors and backing up to a hard drive or even offsite servers.
Penalties could be tough for not complying to HIPAA billing procedures. They could result in fees that cost anywhere from $100 to $250,000 depending upon the violation.
The N.Y. State Department of Health developed a FREE internet based application called EPACES, for providers to submit compliant HIPAA billing claims for Medicaid.
According to a survey by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society,
only about 64% of providers were in compliance with HIPAA in 2004.
Make sure that your facility, medical billing company and clearing house are all HIPAA compliant. On Long Island, in New York and anywhere in the country, HIPAA Billing plays a critical role in keeping any healthcare facility's or physician's patient information secure and private.
HIPAA Billing is a very significant part of Millin Medical's services.
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