tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 1

Physician Note: Practice Size Doesn't Matter When It Comes to HIPAA Settlements

Plus: Medicare focusing on improper payments for illegal immigrant patients. If you think your practice will never be investigated over a HIPAA breach because "they're only coming down on the big guys," then think again. Although all of the previous HIPAA settlements have involved breaches by bigger health organizations that impact more than 500 patients, HHS recently announced a $50,000 settlement with a hospice that involved 441 patients. The hospice organization revealed to HHS that an "unencrypted laptop computer containing the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 441 patients had been stolen in June 2010," the...

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