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An Overview of Insurance Billing Services for Healthcare Providers

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Payment Posting In this step, the received payments from the insurance companies and patients are applied to the relevant accounts. Compliance Assurance It is quite challenging to navigate healthcare regulations, standardized codes, and payment rules.

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Cerebral says 3M affected by a patient data breach

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In the notice, Cerebral said it discovered on January 3 that it "had disclosed certain information that may be regulated as protected health information under HIPAA to certain third-party platforms and some subcontractors without having obtained HIPAA-required assurances."

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Majority of teen patient portals accessed by guardians, raising privacy concerns

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A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by guardians. All three institutions allow adolescents to have their own MyChart accounts through the Epic EHR. WHY IT MATTERS.

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CMS tweaks ACO REACH to stabilize model

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Regulators lowered enrollment minimums for accountable care organizations in the program, which allows providers to form groups to manage care and costs for fee-for-service Medicare enrollees.

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Geisinger saves $560K in pilot integrating video visits into Epic MyChart

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" Patients also could sign the treatment plan, thus enabling compliance with state regulations. "Ultimately, all items not required by behavioral health's regulators and payers were set as optional for patients to complete," Gonzales said. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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How Medical Billing Services Empower Independent Physicians?

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The complexity of medical billing for independent physicians Medical billing services for small practices involve various intricate processes which include accurate coding, adherence to ever-evolving regulations, and on-time claim submissions. In this sum, clinical services and physicians account for 23.4 %.

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HIPAA Compliance in the Age of Big Data: Ensuring Patient Privacy in Healthcare Data Analytics

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Mateusz Krempa, COO, Piwik PRO As healthcare providers increasingly embrace big data, they find themselves at a crossroads: the challenge of using relevant data to improve patient care while ensuring the highest levels of privacy and compliance with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).