hipaa compliant medical billing



HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing

Millin Medical offers HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing

HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing is billing that is compliant with HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, which was enacted by the U.S. Congress.
Millin Associates provides HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing for all of its clients.

One thing that HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing does is set national standards for
electronic health care transactions regarding privacy and security and establishes
national identifiers for health insurance plans, providers and employers.
These standards also apply to New York's Medicaid program.

You should also have a risk management plan specifying all of your policies and safeguards to protect the integrity of patients health data such as; using passwords, firewalls, locking computer room doors and/or backing up to a hard drive and/or offsite servers. HIPAA also to protects health insurance coverage for families, if workers lose or change jobs.

Penalties can be stiff for not following HIPAA compliant medical billing procedures which can result in violations from anywhere between $100 and $250,000 and up.

There is an HIPAA compliant medical billing application developed by the N.Y. State Department of Health that is FREE on the internet, called EPACES,
which allows providers to submit compliant claims for Medicaid.

According to a survey by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in 2004,
only about 64% of providers were in compliance with HIPAA.

Make sure that your office, medical billing company and clearing house use HIPAA compliant medical billing. On Long Island, in New York and anywhere in the country HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing is an integral part your healthcare facilities privacy and security
and an integral part of Millin Medical Associates as well.



 
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