Understanding Health Information Privacy
The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and other important purposes.nnThe Security Rule specifies a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.nnSource – Learn More Here: hhs.gov
WHPelter Managed Care consultants are currently working with national payers to create Episodic Care/Bundled Payment programs. We are currently in the Pilot Project phase and have been given the green light to expand into several different specialties.
Susan Whitney is currently teaching a CPC Certification course here at the classroom facility at WHPelter headquarters. 25 newly minted CPC’s will be ready for the coding universe in the early summer of 2012. We will soon have a CPC Certification Course on-line.
nnLearn more about medical billing and how the services of AMRS can help improve your revenue.nnAdvanced Medical Revenue Specialists (AMRS) is a total access billing and revenue service for physicians offering an unparalleled level of experience, support, reporting and client access to real time data. It has been designed from the ground up to be a high touch, detail oriented revenue service primarily focused on specialty medicine. AMRS purposely accepts a limited number of clients so as to concentrate their efforts on every detail of billing, revenue collections, appeals and above all, customer service.
What is a Medical Billing Software?
Medical Billing Software is a computer application that manages the financial and administrative functions of a healthcare organization. This usually includes patient management, insurance management & billing, patient & insurance statements, reporting, scheduling, electronic billing and collections. This customizable software with many user definable features enables the office manager and billing staff to also check in/check-out patients, verify eligibility, submit claims. To support this workflow, the system will maintain a comprehensive set of payor rules and policies.
What are some of the questions that you can ask the vendor?
If you are considering purchasing an EMR in the near future, ensure to work with a software vendor that also offers a Medical Billing Software system. Also keep in mind some of the below questions prior to your purchase:nn n
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