HIPAA FOR MTs: THE BASICS OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS

Understanding the basics of Federal Regulations can be overwhelming to the Medical Transcriptionist (MT). With a career as a healthcare professional you will here this word a lot HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

This is a bill that was enacted in congress in 1996, with the main objectives, portability and accountability.

PORTABILITY:

Ensure the continuation of health insurance for workers and their families in times of job changes or loss.

ACCOUNTABILITY:

Protecting health data integrity while increase the effectiveness of the health care system, confidentiality and availability and preventing fraud and abuse.

The experts call this the most sweeping healthcare legislation in the last 33 years.

The most important part for HIM (Health Information Management), the department in which MT is one of its specializations, profession is in the title section: TITLE II, SUBTITLE F.
Administrative Simplification is the name of this part.

Four Rules of Administrative Simplification:

• Electronic Standards Rules
  
• Privacy Standards Rules
  
• Security and Electronic Signature Standard Rule
  
• Standard Identification Rule for Employers and Providers
  

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Information specifically about HIPAA including complete text of the regulation and more important links can be found Here.

HIPAA and your job as a MT can be quite over whelming, but don't let this stop you. HIPAA is designed to help you save money and time to make everyone's life easier.

HIPAA FOR MTs:

Sample Business Associate Agreement (sample agreement only, seek legal counsel).

MT's Check List

Safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI): Focus Points for Offsite Transcriptionists

MT Service Providers Transcription Agreement Check List

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Problem Medical Transcription Outsourced?

It is more important than ever to be HIPAA compliant. HIPAA is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

HIPAA is an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This Act was introduced in 1996, but not fully implemented until 2003. HIPAA was created to insure that people between jobs would still have access to quality health care coverage, since in the past it was difficult or impossible to change insurance carriers without facing lowered coverage or exorbitant premiums.****

HIPAA was also intended to protect private health care information and create a uniform standard for dispersing personal information.****

Some companies and physicians are outsourcing medical transcription. There can problems with the medical records being protected when outsourced to other countries. Some countries do not recognize HIPAA.

Working from home as a Medical Transcriptiionist it is very important to comply with HIPAA. Your records should be very safe and secure. Your computer should have anti-virus and anti-spyware, you should also have double-secure files when you save hard copies for your clients. Your emails should be encrypted, and you need a safe FTP program to transfer your work. You should be the only one to used the computer that you transcribe with and make sure it is password-protected. This computer should only be used for your medical transcription and medical billing work.

Medical Transcription-2 promises that all work related information, records, and documents are maintained within the strictest confidence. D.R. Moore's Word Processing and Medical Transcription-2 agrees that no matter, will be divulged, either directly or indirectly to any third party, and shall continue to be effective after the termination of agreement.

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