tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 19

HIPAA ENFORCEMENT: Update Patients on Privacy and Security Breaches.

Interim final rule outlines your responsibility for protecting patients' data. You know that you must keep your patients' protected health information safe from prying eyes, but that obligation just increased.New: If a privacy or security breach affects more than 500 patients, you must alert those patients, the Department of Health and Human Services' secretary, and the media, according to a new interim final rule published by HHS in the Aug. 24 Federal Register. The interim rule also demands that your business associates let you know immediately when a privacy or security breach occurs on their end. However, if...

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