Outsourcing medical billing, coding, and transcription overseas yields significant savings for healthcare providers, but the practice also puts PHI beyond the reach of HIPAA, and that’s too high a price, says Erica Schwalm, CPC, CPC-GENSG, CMRS, a coding and reimbursement specialist at Hamden County Physician Associates in Ludlow, MA.

Kyle Miller, CISSP, has spent nearly three decades in information technology (IT), including work for Intermountain Healthcare in Utah; currently, he works in Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS).