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- 1From:Health Management Technology (Vol. 21, Issue 5)Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia's claims processing system and how it could process a week's worth of claims in one day is described. The reasons for choosing Recognition Research's FormWorks for Health Insurance...
- 2From:Medical Economics (Vol. 90, Issue 4)The stakes are even higher for security breaches of health information, according to new rules for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). In fact, the U.S. Department of Health and...
- 3From:Modern Physician (Vol. 6, Issue 7)After more than a year of silence on the matter, HHS says it will publish the final HIPAA rule for security of individual health information before the end of August. The department announced its intentions in a...
- 4From:Business & Health (Vol. 18, Issue 6)Most private health insurers now have antifraud programs, and the number of cases investigated has nearly tripled in three years, according to the Health Insurance Association of America. HIAA says that every dollar...
- 5From:Health Management Technology (Vol. 21, Issue 10)Help small practices meet the HIPAA challenge HIPAA rules apply to electronic patient records, but even paper-based records can become subject to HIPAA if they are handled electronically in any way. Few medical...
- 6From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 55, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe IRS, HCFA, and the Labor Department's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) have jointly released an interim final rule implementing HIPAA provisions that prohibit group health plans and other issuers...
- 7From:Digestive Diseases and Sciences (Vol. 57, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAfter decades of failed attempts to enact comprehensive health care reform, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been...
- 8From:International Journal for Equity in Health (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground China is in the process of integrating the new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) and the urban residents' basic medical insurance system (URBMI) into the urban and rural residents' basic medical insurance...
- 9From:Medical Economics (Vol. 93, Issue 11)There are more than 50 policies that medical practices may have to implement to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), so it's no wonder meeting these requirements may appear...
- 10From:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines how income levels affected the substitution of public health insurance for private health coverage under expansions of Illinois' State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Building on a...
- 11From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPayer organizations are achieving compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) administrative simplification regulations in significantly larger numbers than are providers, according...
- 12From:Health Management Technology (Vol. 22, Issue 11)While the burden of HIPAA implementation and compliance rests with healthcare providers, payors and information clearing-houses, many experts believe that behavioral health and human service organizations will face...
- 13From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe final rule implementing the privacy standards mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 imposes substantial requirements on covered entities with respect to their business...
- 14From:Business & Health (Vol. 16, Issue 3)The increasing health care insurance fraud perpetrated by a beneficiary and the provider adversely affects the profits of various companies. Statistics show that almost 3%-10% of firms' health costs are feloniously taken...
- 15From:Health Management Technology (Vol. 20, Issue 10)Wenatchee Valley Clinic saves up to 4 percent in administrative expenses. A physician-owned, multispecialty group practice, Wenatchee Valley Clinic in Wenatchee, WA, represents 30 specialties, includes seven...
- 16From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 mandates the electronic processing of health insurance claims. Specifically, the statute requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop...
- 17From:CPA Client BulletinThe public health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act have been well publicized. Another, not so well known option exists: private health insurance exchanges. The private entries are still...
- 18From:Medical Economics (Vol. 90, Issue 8)Newer federal laws and regulations related to using electronic health record systems and safeguarding patient information under changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act may have your medical...
- 19From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHIPAA implementation continues to be a moving target, with many proposed rules yet to come and the possibility that existing final rules will be modified. More than four years after passage of the Health Insurance...
- 20From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 69, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe proposed rate hikes for insurance premiums in the federally facilitated and state-based exchanges, announced in early June, once again have raised concerns about how affordable the plans in the Affordable Care Act...