tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 29

Compliance: Follow 6 Steps To Shore Up HIPAA Compliance

Don't let harsher enforcement catch you by surprise. If your HIPAA compliance has gathered dust over the past few years, it's time to clean house. Recently, CMS announced that one health plan had to pay a $100,000 "resolution" to the Dept. of Health and Human Services for violating patients' protected health information (See Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Vol. 34, no. 28, page 8 for details). If you want to survive the HIPAA scrutiny from regulators and your own patients, you'll likely require a thorough overhaul of your pertinent operations. The $100,000 HIPAA settlement announced last week "confirms...

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