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.
If the covered entity uses a business associate to perform HIPAA covered. transactions on its behalf, the business associate must follow the EDI standards, and the covered entity. must include that requirement in its business associate contracts. The EDI standards apply only to.