Revisiting HIPAA Compliance In the two decades since its original passage, HIPAA compliance (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) hasn’t gotten any easier. Enacted with the primary goal of protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of healthcare information, … [Read more...]
OSHA Overview Medical Practices
OSHA Overview Remember OSHA? Seems like we’ve forgotten about it. However, like HIPAA, your medical practice has to be in compliance – Are you? Here is a brief overview of the bloodborne pathogen rules under OSHA. When reading what OSHA requires employers to do, ask yourself – Am I doing these … [Read more...]
OCR Issues Audit Report on HIPAA Compliance
HIPAA Compliance The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its 2016-2017 HIPAA Audits Industry Report that reviewed selected health care entities and business associates for compliance with certain provisions of the HIPAA Privacy, … [Read more...]
What is a Medicare Comparative Billing Report (CBR)?
CBRs are educational tools used to provide insight into billing trends. The intent is to assist healthcare providers when performing self-audits of both procedures and billing practices. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contracts with eGlobal Tech to identify topics and administer … [Read more...]
Florida contractor physicians’ group shares protected health information with unknown vendor without a business associate agreement
Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to adopt a substantial corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act … [Read more...]
HIPAA Update on Enforcement
At the 2018 HCCA Compliance Institute HIPAA Policy and Enforcement Update, it was reported that since September 2009 through the end of 2017 there were 2178 reports filed with the HHS OCR involving breaches affecting 500 or more individuals. In addition to large breaches, there were over 300,000 … [Read more...]