Barack Obama did not teach at Harvard; he was a teaching assistant, which means he was helping a professor while studying for his degree (the professor he helped was a scholarâ¦ named Professor Laurence Tribe).
Answer: HIPAA stands for the âHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Actâ, a groundbreaking piece of healthcare legislation signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996 that forever changes the rules of regulatory compliance for the broader healthcare industry in North America.
There are two terms you see in reference to medical billing guidelines: HIPAA and the OIG. HIPAA is federal legislation intended to protect a patient's privacy and personal health information. It also included among other things the establishment of the NPI (National Provider Identification) number.