HIPAA Transactions: A Non-Technical Business Guide for Health Care

Softbound: 200 pages
ISBN 1579475574
AMA Press
January 2004
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HIPAA Transactions: A Non-Technical Business Guide for Health Care is a book about business and management decisions that will help your practice prosper using electronic transactions.

Learn how to implement electronic transactions correctly and compliantly
Stay ahead of the curve with the right implementation guidance
Understand the intricacies of HIPAA

This book begins with a synopsis of administrative simplification and a quick overview of the HIPAA transactions standards. It examines the eight types of transactions standards, defines electronic terms, and explores the pros and cons of alternative electronic transactions methods.

Recommended by the American Medical Association, this resource aims to simplify the eight types of Transactions Standards and make them a seamless part of your business process. Definitions of electronic terms and an analysis of the pros and cons of alternative electronic transaction methods are also included.

Information on code sets and implementation guides plus return-on-investment analyses are included. These build a statutory, business and regulatory case for adopting the transaction standards. It also addresses the future of transaction standards, including claims attachments, electronic medical records and electronic prescriptions, and future trends in transaction processing. Also provided is a step-by-step plan to help you implement electronic transactions and return-on-investment analyses that show why adopting the Transactions Standards makes sense for your practice.

Jones, a consultant in healthcare business strategies for companies in financial services and insurance, and Hartley, senior vice president of a healthcare training consultancy, simplify eight types of HIPAA transaction standards and show how to make them a seamless part of the business process in a medical office in this guide for physicians, physician practice managers, and coding professionals.

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