How Does HIPAA Affect Your Practice? How to Become Compliant?

As a health care provider it is important to implement HIPAA standards and keep policies current, as well as provide annual training to employees. It is advisable that you create forms informing your patients about office policies in regard to their medical information. Such forms should include:

• Where their files are stored
• Who has access to their files
• Name, address, and contact information of your billing service
• Name of the healthcare clearinghouse claims are processed through
• Method of transmission of claims

Our company can help you establish HIPAA Compliance:

• Create Employee and Patient Forms
• Establish Employee Computer Policy
• Disaster Recovery Plan
• Off Site Data Backup
• Contingency Operations Plan
• Annual HIPAA Training
• Employee Computer Monitoring Software

Please contact our office for information on HIPAA compliance.