Rating 4.8 out of 5 (709 ratings in Udemy)

• An understanding of the reasons for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
• Recongnition of the scope of the HIPAA law for both health care and insurance industries
• To be able to describe the types of healh care providers that are "covered entities"
• To be able to accurately define protected health information (PHI)
• Identification of the standardized code sets as mandated by HIPAA
• An understanding of the basics of administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, and technical safeguards for e-PHI
• Explain the government's role in overseeing compliance and setting up the means to file a complaint
• To be able to explain the problem of medical identity theft
• Dispell some of the myths related to HIPAA