Scrubs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Just this year alone, we’ve seen some of the largest and most alarming healthcare data breaches in history, including those related to the American Medical Collection Agency, insurer Dominion National, and Inmediata Health Group, just to name a few. The number of healthcare data breaches keeps going up year after year.

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The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 29, 2024

billion in loans to healthcare providers under its temporary funding program to help ease the financial strain caused by delays to the processing of insurance claims and providers will have 45 days to pay back the loans. United Health Group has also confirmed that it has paid out more than $3.3 40% of the $3.3

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Arkenea

AUGUST 16, 2024

Some of the repercussions of data breaches include financial fraud, identity theft, and harm to patient’s life. So, to avoid this, regulatory bodies have implemented regulations such as HIPAA, FDA, HITRUST, FHIR, and more. These rules protect the privacy and security of healthcare data or ePHI.

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Health Prime

MAY 23, 2024

These industry regulations include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Read more about this in our blog How to make sure your Business Associates are HIPAA Compliant. Technology & Software Integration Integrating technology and software is critical to evaluating a potential coding partner.

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Valant

MAY 2, 2024

There are a number of factors to consider, such as service fees, patient volume, and reimbursement rates from insurance providers. Key Components of an Operating Budget Overhead costs are the ongoing expenses required to maintain a practice’s operations, excluding direct patient care costs.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 15, 2024

An EMR API integration involves linking in-house EMR to third-party services such as insurance management, billing portals, appointment booking platforms and more. Patients use these external services to fill an intake form online, check for claims, and access medical records. Here’s how it is done.

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CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Understanding Medical Billing Challenges Medical billing is a complex process that involves managing patient data, coding, insurance claims, and regulatory compliance. Faster Reimbursements Using medical billing software streamlines the process of submitting insurance claims, which means you can expect to receive reimbursement faster.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 15, 2024

Some of the repercussions of data breaches include financial fraud, identity theft, and harm to patient’s life. So, to avoid this, regulatory bodies have implemented regulations such as HIPAA, FDA, HITRUST, FHIR, and more. These rules protect the privacy and security of healthcare data or ePHI.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 31, 2024

Claim Submissions The software streamlines submitting claims to insurance companies. Insurance Processes Chiropractic medical billing software makes managing insurance easier. It updates patient records with insurance changes automatically. This makes sure patients have a good experience from start to end. 

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

This prospect gives fresh urgency to questions such as what uses of patient data should be permissible, who should own the data, and how secure the data are against violations of privacy, including those covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). They don’t want an impersonal experience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

With such turbocharged growth on the supply side, Beazley, experts in specialty insurance, explores the risks of digital health and wellness in a new report, Digital health, telehealth and wellness: Attitudes to risk and insurance. Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos. How to deal?

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Without it, doctors can’t access updated patient records for proper treatment; billing departments are unable to correctly process insurance claims; and research teams are limited in their ability to uncover new findings. […]. By Dan Potter, vice president of product marketing, Attunity, a division of Qlik.

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Valant

APRIL 2, 2024

Performance Reporting: The ability to focus on metrics such as patient retention, insurance aging, and billing documentation status goes a long way towards practice efficiency. Role-based access controls limit access to patient records based on user roles and responsibilities within the organization.

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Valant

MARCH 30, 2024

Electronic health record (EHR) software systems offer various features designed to simplify intake procedures , such as electronic forms and automated workflows. These help practices collect and manage patient information more accurately and efficiently. Electronic forms allow practices to collect patient information digitally.

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Ciox

JULY 20, 2023

Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict data privacy regulations such as: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) These regulations ensure that patient data is handled securely and confidentially, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

Background to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy HIPAA already contains provisions that restrict and prevent certain uses and disclosures of protected health information, including information related to reproductive healthcare; however, since the overturning of Roe v.

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Ciox

AUGUST 3, 2023

This fragmentation poses a significant challenge for healthcare providers striving to deliver patient-centric care. Missed Opportunities: Critical medical insights may remain hidden within the siloed data, leading to missed opportunities for accurate diagnoses and timely patient interventions.

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CareerStep

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They’re used for billing and insurance reasons. Think of it as a simplified language for a patient’s medical history, because every doctor and insurance company in the U.S Checking patient insurance coverage and eligibility before billing. uses the same codes.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 19, 2019

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented. The scorecard website provides details for each of the medical record organizations reviewed. Boy, was I wrong.

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