If medical billing and coding professionals do not already work for one of the three largest healthcare providers in the nation, chances are that at some point in their career they will cross paths with one. Collectively these companies account …
The Office for Civil Rights under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the agency responsible for enforcing the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Readers will remember that the HIPAA Privacy Rule came into effect in …
HIPAA was passed in 1996 with the goal of providing needed reforms in health care. The act had three primary objectives, the first being to make sure people could keep their health insurance when they were between jobs. Up through …