tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2020 Issue Q2

HIPAA: Obtain Authorizations Before Cameras Roll

Privacy requirements still matter in a pandemic. If you turn on the news these days, you’ll likely see report after report of patients and providers battling COVID-19. Unfortunately, the ramped-up media presence in facilities across the nation has led to concerns that covered entities (CEs) are putting HIPAA privacy on the backburner — and that’s not OK. Update: On May 5, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) doubled down with a HIPAA Privacy Rule update to remind CEs that their first priority is to safeguard patients’ protected health information (PHI). In a nutshell, CEs must ensure...

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