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Hippa Pros And Cons

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HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and it was passed with broad bipartisan congressional support in 1996. At the time the legislation was enacted, most behavioral health and human service providers were focused on three important provisions of HIPAA. The reason why HIPPA mandate that providers and contractors use the approve coded is because the health care industry deals with lot of sensitive client information in the healthcare field. Consumer population is highly sensitive about the release of information. The nature of most of our consumers ' problems lends itself to suspicion and a need for verification has to be done. What are the structural differences between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS, including
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