tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 7

HIPAA: CMS UNVEILS LONG-AWAITED HIPAA SECURITY RULE

After months of delays, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Feb. 13 finally unveiled its much-anticipated final rule on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act security rule. The 289-page rule works hand-in-hand with the HIPAA privacy standard. Privacy compliance is at the top of virtually every health care compliance officer’s to-do list. While the privacy rule sets standards for how protected health information can be used and when it can be disclosed, the security standards “define administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information,” CMS...

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