Curious about what it will be like if you get slapped with allegations that you ran afoul of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy and security rules?
The process will be all too familiar if you've ever had a run-in with the HHS Office of Inspector General. In an interim final rule published in the April 17 Federal Register, the Department of Health and Human Services lays out its plans for HIPAA enforcement, and says its procedural model will be OIG rules on imposing civil monetary penalties.
That means the cogs of HIPAA enforcement will be similar...
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