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 researcher is a covered health care provider if he or she furnishes health care services to individuals, including research participants, and transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered by the Transactions Rule.he standards address the use and disclosure of individuals' health information â called protected health information (PHI) â by organizations subject to the Privacy Rule â called covered entities â for various purposes including research.