Corporate Compliance Articles by Topic: HIPAA
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
When HHS published its interim final rule on breach notifications in the August 24 Federal...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
In this issue of SHCC, you’ll learn about what a benchmark on your coders’ productivity...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 45, November 11, 2009
Q: How does CMS handle a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) complaint once...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 45, November 3, 2009
On October 30, CMS released a display copy of the OPPS final rule for CY 2010.
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Understanding the new risks, responsibilities, and requirements presents a complex challenge for...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
“The move means a trigger has been pulled to be more aggressive with compliance actions and...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
In this issue of SHCC, you’ll learn what it means to you now that OCR is assuming oversight...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 42, October 13, 2009
On October 7, CMS issued a correction in the Federal Register to its previously issued IPPS final...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 41, October 6, 2009
On October 1, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a display copy of proposals to modify the...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 11, October 1, 2009
Adjusting to some of the new requirements will be difficult, but other aspects of the rule...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Learn the answer to your important HIPAA privacy and security compliance questions.
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
The cost of a privacy breach far exceeds any fines authorized by the Health Information Technology...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In this issue of SHCC, you’ll learn the real cost of a privacy breach. You’ll find out...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 38, September 23, 2009
Noncompliance with HIPAA regulations can result in several steep penalties. Misuse of patient...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Learn the answer to this and other challenging HIPAA compliance questions from your colleagues.
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
HIPAA may not be fun to teach, learn, or execute because of its complexity, but it needn’t be...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
In this issue of Strategies for Health Care Compliance, we’ll take a look at unnecessary...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 33, August 19, 2009
Q: What auditing and documentation is necessary to demonstrate HIPAA compliance?
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
Q: A secretary in our pathology department faxed a report to a physician’s office. After...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 31, August 5, 2009
By Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media
The secretary of HHS shifted enforcement of the...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
the government, via the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 29, July 22, 2009
Q: I’ve been receiving requests for amendments resulting from records generated prior to...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
The FTC announced in early May that it has delayed enforcement of the rule. This delay will give...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Risk assessment is an important and necessary task for every ¬organization. It can mean the...
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Strategies for Health Care Compliance, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
This month in Strategies for Health Care Compliance, we’ll take a look at some of the issues...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 27, June 30, 2009
On June 26, CMS instructed contractors to make system changes required for implementation of the...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 25, June 24, 2009
Q: How would you construct a letter to inform patients about stolen Protected Health Information?
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
Q: I keep hearing rumors that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will modify HIPAA...
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Mammography Regulation and Reimbursement Report, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Facilities should begin to bolster their HIPAA policies and procedures and training programs in...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
A Massachusetts General Hospital employee left paperwork that contained protected health...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 8, February 25, 2009
HIPAA requires covered entities to manage electronic protected health information , including that...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Q: We treat many patients who come from a state prison. When these patients come to our facility...
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Healthcare Auditing Weekly, Issue 2, January 13, 2009
Looking for a particular audit plan that may help make your job easier? Turn to the “Audit...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
Q: Say a police officer provided the name of a woman with a drug problem to a facility as a heads...
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Compliance Monitor, Issue 91, December 24, 2008
Q: Is overhead paging of a patient by name back to a clinic or hospital area a HIPAA violation?
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Healthcare Auditing Weekly, Issue 47, December 16, 2008
An Arkansas hospital fired six employees in October for illegally accessing patient medical records.
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Healthcare Auditing Weekly, Issue 41, November 4, 2008
The OIG blasted CMS for its limited enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and...
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Healthcare Auditing Weekly, Issue 41, November 4, 2008
Tip: Review your procedures for access patient information in an emergency
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 44, November 4, 2008
On October 30, the OIG issued a review of CMS’ oversight of the HIPAA security rule. The OIG...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 41, October 14, 2008
CMS released two MLN Matters articles last week related to transmittals previously announced in...
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 38, September 23, 2008
On September 19, CMS released the fourth quarter update to the NCCI edits.
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Medicare Weekly Update, Issue 35, September 3, 2008
On August 22, HHS published the ICD-10 proposed rule in the Federal Register. As reported in the...