General Surgery Coding Alert - 2012 Issue 36
Patient Privacy: Even CMS Accidentally Breaches Patient Privacy Sometimes, CMS Says
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Article Overview
This article summarizes an OIG review of CMS privacy breaches and the agency’s response to them over a multi-year period. It is relevant to healthcare compliance staff, privacy officers, coders who handle Medicare-related communications, and anyone tracking HIPAA-related breach notification oversight. The piece covers the scope of the reported incidents, the notification responsibilities tied to breaches of protected health information, and CMS’s response to the OIG findings.
Why This Topic Matters
It highlights how breach notification oversight applies even to large federal healthcare programs and why privacy workflows, contractor handling, and timely notification processes matter for compliance and risk management.
What You Will Learn
- What the article says about CMS privacy breach incidents and OIG review activity
- How breach notification oversight is described in relation to protected health information
- What general compliance issues are discussed around timeliness and notification handling
- How CMS responded at a high level to the OIG report
Who Should Read This
- Healthcare compliance professionals
- Privacy officers
- Revenue cycle teams
- Medical coders and billing staff
- Practice managers
- Health information management professionals
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