Compliance

Compliance

Transform Healthcare focuses on conducting business with integrity and in compliance with all applicable health information privacy laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Privacy standards have been established by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to protect an individual's identifiable health information from unauthorized disclosure. As part of THS’s strong commitment to HIPAA compliance and to prevent violations of the health information privacy laws, we have designed a formal HIPAA Compliance Program.

"TSH" falls under the extension of Business Associate. A Business Associate (BA) is any person(s) or entity that performs a function or activity on behalf of a Covered Entity (CE) and involves the use or disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI)

THS Confidentiality Measures

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was the result of the country’s need to have standards in place for ensuring patient privacy.

Under HIPAA, patient information must be kept confidential. We understand that medical billing companies deal with patient information regularly since they receive health-care claims that reveal the name of the patient and the services that were rendered to him. Consequently, our employees who work the inbound claims must adhere to HIPAA standards, or else they can be charged with breaking a HIPAA law. This means that employees shall not discuss patient information with others outside of work or disclose their information wrongly. We have a policy of upgrading HIPAA confidentiality rules into our operating policies and procedures as a safeguard to ensure that staff understands the significance of the federal requirement.

THS Security Measures

THS takes extreme measures to secure patient data. Here are our organizational compliance settings:

• Confidentiality Agreement:- THS has a confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement as well as a HIPAA compliance document that must be signed by each and every employee of the company prior to joining the company. In the agreement, there is always a clause that prevents the employee from disclosing, publishing, or accessing patient information in any unauthorized way. We understand how important maintaining confidentiality is to our success.
• Firewalls & Antivirus Software:- THS has built a firewall that cannot be penetrated. We do this by utilizing secure FTP to transfer documents and encrypt emails prior to sending and receiving information from our clients. The systems are updated with virus definitions on a daily basis. We conduct technical evaluations on a routine basis to ensure that all the systems in our office meet the necessary security agreements.
• Password Protected Systems:-  All our employees use passwords to logon into their computers. This system prevents unauthorized access to data. All our employees use passwords to logon into their computers. This system prevents unauthorized access to data.
• Absence of External drives:- USB ports in all computers are blocked as per protection policies & all the external drives in the systems are been disabled.
• Encrypted Data:- Prior to exchanging documents, a secure connection is established using VPN tunnels or secure cloud storage is being used with limited access to users. Data that is transferred from our customers’ office to our office is encrypted to ensure that none of the data is deciphered.

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