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Basics of HIPAA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Medical Billers and Coders (MBC)<\/strong> being a leading medical billing company manages all revenue cycle management activities in HIPAA compliant way. In this article, we shared the basics of HIPAA compliance, and how selecting HIPAA-compliant ophthalmology medical billing services can help to receive accurate insurance reimbursements while reducing the chances of payer audits.<\/p>\n

HIPAA is the acronym for the Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act. Although HIPAA covers many things, physicians including ophthalmologists are most concerned with HIPAA\u2019s administrative simplification provisions, particularly the privacy, security, and breach notification requirements.<\/p>\n

At its core, HIPAA simply implements longstanding physician commitments to protect the confidentiality of their patient’s medical information and maintain open physician-patient communications. However, the specificity of the requirements goes well beyond traditional, self-evident obligations, and violations can result in serious penalties.<\/p>\n

Physicians should also note that HIPAA is considered a \u2018floor,\u2019 meaning, states may have requirements that go above and beyond what the federal government requires.<\/p>\n

The most important thing ophthalmologists must be aware of is that there\u2019s no such thing as \u2018HIPAA-compliant certification\u2019. In other words, ophthalmology practices can\u2019t earn an \u2018approval\u2019 that makes them compliant once and always.<\/p>\n

While credentialed staff at independent firms can give their professional opinion on your practice\u2019s HIPAA compliance status, any HIPAA assessment is just a \u2018snapshot in time.\u2019 HIPAA compliance is a continual effort of your practice.<\/p>\n

To protect your practice against a security breach and ensure you\u2019re in compliance with HIPAA, follow some steps like educating staff about the importance of complying with HIPAA requirements; performing a privacy and security risk assessment for all healthcare information technology, and not just your electronic health records; also maintain a paper trail to ensure all electronic patient information is encrypted when in transit and at rest.<\/p>\n

HIPAA Compliant Ophthalmology Medical Billing Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Being a leading ophthalmology medical billing services provider, Medical Billers and Coders (MBC)<\/strong> has an efficient audit system to ensure proper documentation as well as timely entries of all superbills so as to avoid missed charges.<\/p>\n

Our coders are divided as per medical specialty, so our AAPC-certified coders are well versed in the latest CPT, ICD-10<\/a>, and HCPCS codes. Our coders clearly understand the reimbursement rules of all major insurances including Medicare, Medicaid, Workers\u2019 Compensation, and personal injury.<\/p>\n

Being leading ophthalmology<\/a> medical billing services provider, we observed a lot of HIPAA violations done by practices almost every day, some of them are as follows:<\/p>\n