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.
HIPAA applies to any entity or its components of an entity that performs certain covered functions (the performance of which would by definition make the entity a health plan, health care provider, or health information clearinghouse).3) A health care provider who transmits any health information in electronic form in connection with a transaction covered by this subchapter. Covered functions â  means those functions of a covered entity the performance of which makes the entity a health plan, health care provider, or health care clearinghouse.