tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 20

HIPAA: Home May Be Where The Privacy Violation Is

7 tips for dealing with work-at-home codersOff-site shouldn't mean out of mind when it comes to dealing with private health information.If you let your coders, billers, transcriptionists or other administrative staff work from their homes or some other offsite location, then you need to be twice as aware of potential compliance problems. "The way the [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] security rule is written, it's scalable," says Tessa Chenaille, president and CEO of Chenaille Compliance Consulting in Medford, MA. "You do what you can do to protect [PHI], and if you can't protect it you can't...

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