Paying Social Security and Medicare taxes Currently, you and your employer each pay a 6.2 percent Social Security tax on up to $118,500 of your earnings and a 1.45 percent Medicare tax on all earnings.
Business associate. A business associate is a person or. organization, other than a member of a covered entity's workforce, that performs certain functions or activities on behalf of, or provides certain services to, a covered entity that involve the use or disclosure of individually identifiable health information.
A health care provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in. connection with a transaction covered HIPAA. Covered Health Care Provider â means a provider of medical or health services and any other. person or organization who furnishes, bills, or is paid for health care in the normal course of.