HIPAA Pros And Cons

The Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), originally known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Bill, was passed by Bill Clinton in 1996 and congress. The specific detailing of the law were left to upcoming planning by the Secretary of Health, Congress, and Human Services. The Privacy Rule was the first aspect of HIPAA to be finalized in 1999. Next came the Transaction and code sets Final Rule, in 2000 and was followed by the National Provider Identifier, and the Security Rule, or Unique Identifiers, rule. In 2006, the last part of HIPAA to be finalized was the Enforcement Rule. Congress enacted HIPAA to help ensure that patients were getting the health coverage needed and patients were getting the privacy needed. Before HIPAA was placed there were a small amount of regulations that enforced the safe handling and privacy of a patient’s information. It became apparent that the medical care industry would become more cost effective by computerizing medical records because of this they needed to come up with new standards regarding the handling and management of health care data. With this they included rules regarding the protection of a patient’s right to have medical privacy, the transfer of medical information as well as the establishment of a patient. In medical offices all worker must have training for HIPAA, which consists

For example a doctor needs to get a payment for services he has performed, so he will send a claim regarding the information of the patient. He will have to comply with the HIPAA and use a covered entity such as coding and using HCPCS so the information is only able to read by a trained eye. So they must use covered entities such as coding from Current Procedure Terminology (CPT), Health Care Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), International classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) and (ICD-10) as of October