Benefit of Hipaa
Benefits of HIPAA
Larasha McAllister
Kaplan University
HS210: Medical Office Management
Traci Clark
March 18, 2013
Benefits of HIPAA
How does the HIPAA Privacy and Security rule, benefit the healthcare industry? When all the commotion and fear related to HIPAA begins to subside, patient, health plan, healthcare providers and health care organization will recognize that HIPAA regulations benefit them.
Who can argue with the benefits of reducing paper in healthcare industry? Also who will argue, against the benefit of standardized data, especially for the coordination of insurance benefit is simplification of data submission through standard transaction and code sets? Provider and health plan overhead cost reduction through standardization. A main benefit of healthcare industry begin required to use HIPAA standard data and format is that everyone sending claims will be doing it with the sane data elements and the same format. For instance, this allows billing offices to make away from having the accommodate different data and format needs for different payers(Young,2007).
How does the HIPAA Privacy and Security rule benefit the patient? It benefits the patient by giving the patient more control over their medical records. Also patients are able to make informed choice regarding how their personal health information is used. Another benefit is it reduces the chance for inappropriate use and disclosure their personal information.
Patients also benefit by the limit release of information to the minimum reasonably needed for the purpose of the disclosure. It empowers individuals to control certain uses and disclosure of their health information. The last benefit is it gives patients the right to examine and obtain a copy of their own health records and request corrections (Fryar, 2005).
How does the HIPAA Privacy and Security rule benefit the physician? It benefits the physician by setting boundaries for
Larasha McAllister
Kaplan University
HS210: Medical Office Management
Traci Clark
March 18, 2013
Benefits of HIPAA
How does the HIPAA Privacy and Security rule, benefit the healthcare industry? When all the commotion and fear related to HIPAA begins to subside, patient, health plan, healthcare providers and health care organization will recognize that HIPAA regulations benefit them.
Who can argue with the benefits of reducing paper in healthcare industry? Also who will argue, against the benefit of standardized data, especially for the coordination of insurance benefit is simplification of data submission through standard transaction and code sets? Provider and health plan overhead cost reduction through standardization. A main benefit of healthcare industry begin required to use HIPAA standard data and format is that everyone sending claims will be doing it with the sane data elements and the same format. For instance, this allows billing offices to make away from having the accommodate different data and format needs for different payers(Young,2007).
How does the HIPAA Privacy and Security rule benefit the patient? It benefits the patient by giving the patient more control over their medical records. Also patients are able to make informed choice regarding how their personal health information is used. Another benefit is it reduces the chance for inappropriate use and disclosure their personal information.
Patients also benefit by the limit release of information to the minimum reasonably needed for the purpose of the disclosure. It empowers individuals to control certain uses and disclosure of their health information. The last benefit is it gives patients the right to examine and obtain a copy of their own health records and request corrections (Fryar, 2005).
How does the HIPAA Privacy and Security rule benefit the physician? It benefits the physician by setting boundaries for