Medical Billing Professionals Code of
Ethics
Code of Ethics provided by K&L website
for billers
Section One-Principles
Article I -Our responsibilities
Medical Billing Professionals perform an essential role in the health care
industry.
Consistent with that role, we have the responsibility of providing competent
and professional services to those who retain our services. Additionally, we
recognize a continuing responsibility to maintain and improve our services for
the good of the general public.
Article II-Protection of the Public Interest
One of the hallmarks of our profession is the recognition and acceptance of our
responsibilities to the public. These persons include our clients, patients,
health care providers, physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, and others who may
rely on the objectivity and integrity of the medical billing profession.
Article III-Maintaining Objectivity and Impartiality
The principles of objectivity imposes the obligation to be impartial,
ineffectually honest, and free of conflicts of interest. Impartiality precludes
relationships that may appear to impair our objectivity in rendering services.
We just remain impartial and objective and are free of conflicts of interest in
discharging our professional responsibilities. We should be independent in fact
and appearance when providing our services. Objectivity is a state of mind, a
quality that leads value to our services.
Article IV-Professional Due Care and Competence
We must observe our profession’s technical standards; strive continually to
improve competence and the quality of services, and discharge professional
responsibility to the best of our ability. Due care requires us to discharge
professional responsibility with competence and elegance. Competence begins with
an understanding of the basic Knowledge required to provide our service, this
knowledge obtained through a solid foundation in education. Competence
represents the attainment and maintenance of a level of understanding and
knowledge that enables us to render service with facility and acumen. Diligence
imposes the responsibility to render services promptly and carefully, to be
thorough.
Section Two-Rules and Guidelines
Rule I-Integrity and Objectivity
In the performance of any professional service, we shall maintain objectivity
and integrity, shall be free of conflicts of interest, and shall never knowingly
misrepresent facts to our clients or the public.
Rule II-General Standards
We shall comply with these standards:
(A) Professional competence-undertake only those professional services that we
can reasonably expect to be completed with professional competence.
(B) Professional due care-exercise due professional care in the performance of
Professional Services.
(C) Professional Integrity- we will conduct our business with the highest degree
of integrity and in the best interest of our clients and the general public.
Rule III-Confidentiality
We shall not disclose any confidential information unless instructed to do so by
the Provider. This means even beyond the termination of the provider-billing
center agreement.
Rule IV-Fee’s
Professional services shall be offered or rendered on either a per-claim or
percentage basis or under an arrangement whereby no fee will be charged unless a
specific result is obtained. The rate and means of billing shall be made
explicit.
Rule V-Truth in Advertising and Promotions
We shall not obtain clients by advertising or other forms of solicitation in a
manner that is in any way false, misleading, or deceptive.
Sincerely and with Pride,
Mountain
Ridge Medical Office Solutions, LLC
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