Documentation Interchange Standards- According to Fenton, Giannangelo, Kallem, and Scichilone (2007) “documentation standards …show more content…
When it comes to billing and coding, integrity is an important asset. As a medical coder and biller, patients and employers trust you with their personal, private information as well as their insurance claims. Patients also trust you to code their diagnosis accurately, fairly, and legally. There may be times where an employee may be faced with a patient or employee to code wrongly and ignore professional standards. To be worthy of this trust, you must uphold your integrity as a medical biller and coder. Integrity is the reassurance that the information being accessed has not been changed represents what is intended
Information Security Regulations- Many medical offices promote security regulations to ensure safety of patient data. A type of security measure is authentication. This allows the system to know who they are by different factors such as ID and passwords. After a provider established authentication, they are still guarded by access control, which regulates what they can see, document or modify in a patient’s health