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HIPPA Testing - Working from home


Posted: Jun 22, 2015

As an independent contractor has anyone had to take a HIPPA test to either start contracting or keep an existing contract with a company that you are transcribing for?

I did for TTS - MI MT

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Was a short test, no big deal, got a certificate in the mail

Yes - Twice

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for two different companies. There are requirements even from working from home that you are expected to know and follow. Some companies pay for the test and some do not. Mine did not.

no, but I took the HIPAA test - nm

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No... - I never have

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If memory serves, even w/ bigger companies that were eventually swallowed by even bigger companies, I never took one. This was before 2009, though.


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