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In eight pages this paper discusses HIPAA and medical coding as it pertains to the legal issue of patient privacy rights. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Act (HIPAA) (P.L. 104-191) (Implementing HIPAA, 2002). The laws initial purpose was to limit the means by which employers could deny employee coverage due to preexisting medical conditions (Flores,
2005). However, its other objectives include promoting health care benefits portability, improving health insurance continuity, simplifying costly health insurance administration, and ensuring greater health care fraud accountability (Implementing HIPAA,
2002). With the passage of HIPAA, health care fraud became a federal offense, which made it illegal for a person with knowledge or intent to: * Defraud any health
care benefit program or to obtain by means of false representations any money or property of a health care benefit program; * Make false or fictitious statements in
any matter involving a health care benefit program; * Embezzle, convert, or steal any funds, property, or assets of a health care benefit program; or *
Obstruct, delay, prevent, or mislead the investigation of federal health care offenses (Mcguire & Schneider, 2007, p. 633). Anyone found in violation of HIPAA could receive penalties varying in
severity including a wide range of fine amounts and/or prison sentences from a five-year maximum to 20 years for resulting bodily harm or life in prison for patient death (Jacko
& Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provider, payer (which also includes employers that are self-insured), as well as health care clearinghouses
(Jacko & Sears, 2003). Title I addresses access to health care, portability and renewability of health insurance; Title II addresses health care abuse and fraud issues; Title III pertains
to medical savings accounts (MSAs) and tax provisions; title IV involves group health plans; and Title V pertains to revenue compensation (Jacko & Sears, 2003). Administrative Simplification, or HIPAAs
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