The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) helps Americans in keeping their quality health insurance if they happen to become victims job loss or decide to change their job. Most prominently, HIPAA provides high standards for protecting private personal health insurance information as well as creating electronic formats designed to reduce administrative costs and burden (such as eliminating the use of paper which can be costly during administrative transactions.) HIPAA impacts nearly every department of entities that have access to personal health information.
HIPAA is primarily broken down into two regulation systems: 1) the HIPAA Privacy rule and 2) the HIPAA Security rule. Entities covered by the Privacy and Security rules include Healthcare plans, healthcare providers, billing and coding firms, and healthcare clearinghouses. The requirements include: designating a security officer to implement
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The HIPAA rules provide clear, expenditure saving, and purposeful standards In respecting patient’s personal health to the benefit of no one but the patient.
HIPAA is the short form for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, this act was approved in 1996 by the Congress. Privacy acts require health care facilities and their business personnel to protect patient files and information. Confidentiality is required and protected health information (PHI) should be maintained when information is documented, shared, or received. This pertains to all documentation and patient files, whether it is oral, paper-based or electronic.
The purpose of HIPAA is to exchange health insurance information between workers and their families when they change jobs or get fired. Handling PHI should be taken care of meticulously and caution. The state makes it mandatory for the employer to make sure the standards are up to date in electronic billing,