Set policies and procedures to comply with new federal HIPAA regulations
Briefings on Outpatient Rehab: Reimbursement and Regulations, December 1, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on August 19 released its interim final rule on breach notification of unsecure protected health information (PHI) and the acceptable methods for covered entities (CE) and business associates (BA) to encrypt and destroy patient records in order to prevent breaches.
HHS published the breach notification rule in the Federal Register (45 CFR Parts 160 and 164) August 24. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) required HHS to issue the final rule six months after President Obama signed into law Title XIII of the ARRA—the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act.
The PHI breach notification regulations took effect September 23. However, HHS will not enforce the rule until February 22, 2010, or thereabouts.
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