{"id":1888,"date":"2013-02-22T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcodersblog.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:21:34","slug":"are-orthopedics-justified-in-embracing-hipaa-compliant-orthopedic-billing-to-boost-their-reimbursement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/are-orthopedics-justified-in-embracing-hipaa-compliant-orthopedic-billing-to-boost-their-reimbursement\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Orthopedics Justified in Embracing HIPAA Compliant Orthopedic Billing to Boost Their Reimbursement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reimbursements have generally been tight recently for orthopedics \u2013 Medicare cuts, shrinking fee schedules, increased technology intervention in medical billing, and a multi-payer environment that is more vigilant than ever have really made it tough for orthopedics to realize their reimbursements to the maximum. But amidst these monumental challenges, HIPAA compliant clinical and operational management may still offer avenues to keep reimbursements level above average.<\/p>\n

Thus, orthopedics across the U.S. are beginning to embrace technology-driven HIPAA compliant orthopedic billing to offset the impact of a series of restrictive impositions on medical billing.<\/p>\n

The significance about HIPAA compliance is that it can not only endorse orthopedics as being responsive to patient privacy and security but also entitle them to incentives for showing up as responsible partners in effective and efficient health care delivery. Moreover, payors perceive HIPAA compliance to be the yardstick for measuring orthopedics\u2019 integrity for medical billing.<\/p>\n

Therefore, HIPAA-compliant orthopedic medical billing<\/a> may just be the factor that can create a sense of trust among your payors. But HIPAA compliance needs to planned and executed in a way that best suits individual practitioners or hospitals; HIPAA compliance cannot be generalized even though you happen to be in the same discipline as orthopedics.<\/p>\n

The factors that will need to be taken care of while migrating to HIPAA compliant orthopedic medical billing are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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  • Ensuring Protected Health Information (PHI):<\/strong> HIPAA compliance requires you to protect health information, which may include anything that can be used to identify an individual and any information shared with other health care providers or clearinghouses in any media (digital, verbal, recorded voice, faxed, printed, or written).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Adhering to Principles of HIPAA:<\/strong> While HIPAA may allow smooth flow of PHI for healthcare operations subject to patient\u2019s consent, it is deemed a violation of HIPAA compliance if you disseminate PHI for purposes other than treatment, payment, care quality assessment, competence review training, accreditation, insurance rating, auditing, and legal procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Following HIPAA Implementation Process:<\/strong> HIPAA implementation needs necessarily include both pre-emptive and retroactive controls and have the process, technology, and personnel aspects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Sourcing the right Technology for HIPAA Compliance:<\/strong> HIPAA compliance needs to be served with the right technology that can assure physical data center security, network security, and data security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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