What You Need to Know About Proposed Changes

1. What You Need to Know About Proposed Changes to HIPAA? Medical Billers and Coders

2. Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency that creates and enforces HIPAA regulations, Proposed Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. HIPAA is a landmark piece of legislation that has helped patients better protect their private health information. HIPAA has been amended numerous times since it was enacted to include additions such as the Privacy Rule and the Enforcement Rule, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, proposing major revisions to the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

3. Proposed Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule: • Reducing Identity Verification Burdens • Improving Information Sharing • Disclosure of PHI to Third-parties • Disclosures Based on Professional Judgment • Disclosures to Prevent Threat to Health or Safety • Notice of Privacy Practices • Reducing Administrative Burdens on HIPAA

4. We conduct regular training to keep our medical billing team update on changes and to address challenges that they may be facing in using certain bills or reporting certain procedures. To know more about Our billing services, please get in touch with us!

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