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This year has started with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) renewed attention to its Health Breach Notification Rule (Breach Rule) and the publication of the Health Privacy resource page to help companies with their...more
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/10/2022
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Surprise Medical Bills ,
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Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance. This year’s seminar will take place virtually on March 15, March 17, March 22, and...more
2/9/2022
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Healthcare Fraud ,
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Hospitals ,
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PHI ,
Physicians ,
Risk Management ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Telehealth ,
Webinars
It's that time of the year again: the opportunity to brush off your New Year's resolutions for privacy and security of health information. Here are some potential health information privacy and security resolutions for your...more
It used to be easy to calculate HIPAA penalties in your head—$50,000 per violation and up to $1.5 million per calendar year for multiple violations of the same HIPAA provision. But those days of easy math are long gone since...more
The 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule's applicability date of April 5, 2021, is just around the corner. Nevertheless, healthcare providers are still struggling with understanding their obligations under the new...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a 45-day extension of the comment period for proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The deadline for submitting comments now has been pushed from...more
March 1, 2021, is the due date for HIPAA-covered entities to notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) about "small" breaches of unsecured protected health information discovered...more
On January 21, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published proposed changes to the privacy rule (Privacy Rule) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This Notice of Proposed...more
When COVID-19 first began to spread in the United States, a recurring question we received was whether employers become subject to HIPAA by taking employee temperatures or collecting medical information. The answer generally...more
As the November 2 compliance date quickly approaches, healthcare providers are finding that tackling the new "information blocking" regulations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requires substantial...more
While the healthcare industry is under siege battling COVID-19, on March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved ahead and finalized two long-awaited and controversial rules related to...more
Telehealth is an essential tool in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in treating other ailments during this time. The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently issued a...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of our daily lives, from greeting us in the morning through smart home devices, creating shopping lists, playing music, setting timers, and alerting us of a traffic jam on our...more
News broke last month that Google partnered with the second-largest health system in the U.S., Ascension Healthcare, to collect and analyze the health information of millions of patients in a program code-named "Project...more
In a Rare Imposition of HIPAA Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) Rather than Settlement, What to Accept May Have Been the Question -
On October 23, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights...more
Consistent with the Administration’s broader effort to reduce regulatory burdens within the healthcare industry, the Sprint Regulations include proposals designed to remove barriers to the widespread adoption of cybersecurity...more
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it is lowering the maximum total penalties it may assess against covered entities and business associates for multiple violations...more
March 1, 2019 is the date by which HIPAA covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of “small” breaches of unsecured protected health information that were...more
When a patient publicly disparages a health care provider, HIPAA leaves the health care provider in a seemingly impossible situation. If the health care provider does not respond and dispute the allegation, then its...more
Recent statements at the 27th National HIPAA Summit suggest that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) may be changing its position and expecting a greater level of vendor due...more
March 1, 2018 is the date by which HIPAA covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of “small” breaches of unsecured protected health information that were...more
To start off the New Year, here are some potential health information privacy and security resolutions. You can use these Annual, Quarterly, and Monthly lists to map out your privacy and security tasks for the year, and then...more
The Code of Federal Regulations has recently published the 2017 version of the HIPAA regulations. This is the most up-to-date “official” version of the HIPAA regulations. We have created a version that includes PDF bookmarks...more