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HHS Released Guidelines HIPAA Compliance Amidst Pandemic for Reporting Patient’s Authorization

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  Medical billing services, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders are bound by HIPAA Law or “HITECH Law of 2009” to protect and restrain the misuse of sensitive healthcare information.  When we join a  medical billing company , the first thing that medical billers, coders, auditors, and physicians learn is to safeguard the Protected Health Information (PHI). Moreover, there are proper guidelines to avoid the misinterpretation of the confidentiality of patients' data. The relaxations subjected to the privacy rules of HIPAA compliance don’t imply any loose ends for security measures. The parties associated with the information, such as covered entities, billing services,  MIPS Qualified Registries , and clinicians, must adopt all means to protect information from falling into the wrong hands. Medical Practices are Sharing Data with Authorities for Research   Healthcare IT experts have decided that we can find ways to restrict virus exposure and even prevent another health