At this point, HIPAA-covered providers know that they are required to keep patients’ protected health information (PHI) private and secure. What they may not know is that they also are required to maintain a HIPAA-compliant breach notification policy in the office and to notify patients if a breach occurs.
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Protecting Your Right to Reimbursement: “Assignment of Benefits” Versus “Designation of Authorized Representative”
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Health care providers often wonder (but don’t always ask) what qualifications are required for persons who conduct reviews of physicians.
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The ICS Journal has previously discussed regulators’ views about the legal risks of prepaid health care or health care membership programs.
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As confirmed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “grandfathered” plans are not subject to all requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
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o be a network provider, you know that health plans require you to sign written agreements that govern the relationship between the provider and the plan.
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Informed consent is an important element of modern health care. Gone are the days when the caring but the patronizing doctor made all the decisions, assuming patients didn’t need to understand much about their treatment options. By contrast, today’s health care is intended to be a provider-patient collaboration in which the doctor provides expert advice about diagnosis and treatment options, and the patient must consent to procedures after weighing the information provided.
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Chiropractic physicians in Illinois enjoy one of the broadest scopes of practice in the country. However, D.C.s sometimes encounter a lack of understanding or outright misinformation as to procedures they are authorized to perform especially diagnostic procedures.
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