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.
Health care providers that are âcovered health care providersâ under HIPAA are. required to use an NPI. A covered health care provider is defined as a health care. provider who transmits any health information in electronic form between two parties to.