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HIPAA Statement
APS Healthcare Solutions understands the importance of the providers (or payers) roll in adhering to the requirements set forth in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
The rules that address both the Privacy and the Security issues as they relate to the
PHI (patients health information), state that you need to execute a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with any vendor to whom you transmit
PHI. However, because verbiage differs slightly from customer to customer, please forward us a copy of your BAA for us to execute.
Transmissions of the Patient Billing Data must be secure.
The HIPAA privacy rule, which was effective April 14, 2003, requires you maintain “reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards” to protect
PHI from unauthorized disclosure. Additionally, the final Security Standards that were issued in Feb 2003 (which become binding in April 2005) address the protection of
PHI as it is transmitted electronically. APS Healthcare Solutions meets or exceeds both the physical security (a detailed description of all security features can be attached to the BAA) as well as the data security standards (an additional attachment can be written detailing our encryption methodology).
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