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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 compliance—such 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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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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How to Implement Behavioral Health Compliance Best Practices

Relias

To help you better manage your organization’s various compliance needs, let’s delve into what behavioral compliance entails and some best practices to keep in mind. Consider HIPAA as an example: violations classified as “unknown” may incur fines starting at $100 per infraction. million per year.

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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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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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HHS Updates HIPAA Rule to Enhance ePHI Security

Health Prime

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule of 1996. This is the first HIPAA Security rule update since 2013. Review the full NPRM on the HHS website.