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How to Streamline Your Medical Claims Management Process for Better Results 

CollaborateMD

Challenges of Healthcare Claims Processing A medical claim is a request made by a healthcare provider to insurance companies (payer) to receive reimbursement for services rendered. It hinges on streamlined healthcare operations, including how your medical practice handles insurance claims. Easy, right? Claims scrubbing.

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Verisource Services Increases Data Breach Victim Count to 4 Million

The HIPAA Journal

The OCR breach portal still lists the incident as affecting 112,726 patients and plan members of its HIPAA-regulated entity clients, although that total may well be updated in the coming days. The post Verisource Services Increases Data Breach Victim Count to 4 Million appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.

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Understanding Ethical Standards for Medical Assistants

Prism Career Institute

They must always be honest with them, act in their best interest, never take action to harm them, value their right to make their own healthcare decisions, and advocate for their needs. This law gives patients control over their health records and provides directions for handling lawfully disclosed health information.

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HIPAA Update to Include Cybersecurity Requirements for Health Care Organizations

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

An update to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is now underway with new cybersecurity requirements. In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing new guidance for health care providers to help better prepare them on how best to respond to cyber threats.

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Almost One-Third of Rural Hospitals Benefiting from Microsoft’s Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program

The HIPAA Journal

Rural hospitals often have low operating margins, high fixed costs relative to their urban counterparts, and have lower reimbursement rates from insurers. At the launch of the program, Microsoft learned that most rural hospitals hadnt implemented basic cybersecurity best practices such as email security and multi-factor authentication.

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Three Best Practices to Ensure Data Security and Compliance in Medical Billing 

Health Prime

With the expansion of digital healthcare information systems, security and regulatory compliancesuch as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) have become not only best practices but also legal requirements. We are HIPAA-compliant. They invest in the latest technology and infrastructure.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. This week, Ken Mandl and Eric Perakslis co-wrote an essay in The New England Journal of Medicine on HIPAA and the “leak of ‘deidentified’ EHR data.”

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