KanDarm Medical Billing Service Wants to Make sure that your Practice is HIPAA Ready

KanDarm Medical Billing Service knows the importance of being HIPAA ready.

HIPAA simply stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. HIPAA requires that all healthcare providers and organizations adhere to new standards for security, privacy and health information management.

Here are Some Steps to Help your Practice Adhere to HIPAA Laws and Procedures

1. Designate a privacy official and define the job responsibilities.

2. Develop a HIPAA documentation strategy with appropriate advice

3. Develop a HIPAA privacy budget and a "Time and Task" chart.

4. Understand how patient information flows through your practice.

5. Draft your notice of privacy practices.

6. Prepare your HIPAA privacy policies and procedures.

7. Carefully develop and implement a training program.

8. Test your personnel and reassess your training program.

9. Make sure that you are tracking patients that have signed the consent agreement.

10. Develop a process to update all business partner agreements.

11. Walk through your entire practice to make sure that you have covered all points of potential violations.

12. Create a system that will remind you to do periodic self-evaluations.

We help to create a sense of confidence when it comes to your patients' information during a disaster.

We want to make sure that you meet the HIPAA Compliance regulations mandating security of your patient information.

What a comfort it is to know that in the event of a disaster, whether it is a fire in the middle of the night or a hurricane in the middle of the season, you can recover your patient data by accessing any computer.

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