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HHS’s Proposed Security Rule Updates Could Require Group Health Plan Document Changes and New Plan Sponsor Security Practices

Proposed regulations may require employers to invest additional resources to safeguard group health plan participants’ protected health information. In this installment of our blog series on the U.S. Department of Health...more

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NY Department of Health Bolsters Hospital Cybersecurity Regulations

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New York hospitals have less than a year to dust off their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance programs and update them to comply with more stringent and detailed state regulations. Last...more

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Hospital Administrators – Is Your Hospital Cyber-Secure?

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On October 2, 2024, New York adopted new regulations requiring general hospitals to implement heightened cybersecurity safeguards. General hospitals, as defined in Article 28 of the NY Public Health Law, generally must begin...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: September 2024

The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Upcoming Annual Deadline for HIPAA Small Breach Reporting: March 1, 2022

HIPAA-covered entities should note the quickly approaching March 1, 2022 deadline for reporting breaches of unsecured protected health information that occurred in 2021 and involved fewer than 500 individuals. This article...more

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COVID-19 Guidance for Institutions of Higher Education

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The fluid and fast-changing impact of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has left institutions of higher education (IHEs) scrambling to address unexpected legal issues. This guidance addresses some of their more frequently asked...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

'Misinterpretation' of Breach Rule, Lack of Internal BAA Cost Hospital Group $2.1M

Report on Patient Privacy 19, no. 12 (December 2019) - Sentara Hospitals, a nonprofit group of 12 medical centers in Virginia and North Carolina, will implement a fairly minimal two-year corrective action plan (CAP) and...more

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HIPAA Breach Notification: When and How to Self-Report

So you just discovered that protected health information (“PHI”) from your organization was improperly accessed or disclosed. Are you required to self-report the violation to the affected individual and HHS? HIPAA Breach...more

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Reminder: Notice of 2017 small HIPAA breaches due to HHS soon

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The deadline to submit notice to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of small HIPAA breaches (those that affected fewer than 500 individuals) discovered in calendar year 2017 is March 1, 2018....more

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Causes of Healthcare Data Breaches

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Pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), covered entities (e.g. healthcare providers and health plans) must notify the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) of breaches...more

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HHS guidance seeks to clarify scope of PSQIA

On May 24, 2016, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued guidance (Guidance) to health care providers and patient safety organizations (PSOs) in an attempt to clarify the definition of patient safety work...more

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HIPAA Breach Reporting Deadline: February 29

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February 29, 2016, is the deadline for providing notification to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered in the 2015...more

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Deadline for Reporting “Small” 2015 HIPAA Breaches Approaching

For those covered entities who experienced one or more HIPAA breaches involving less than 500 individuals during the calendar year 2015, the deadline for reporting those breaches to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of...more

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Deadline Approaching to Report Certain HIPAA Breaches to Federal Officials

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The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule requires covered entities to notify the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) if a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI) is discovered. As most...more

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Brace for Impact – Final HITECH Rules Will Require Substantially More Breach Reporting

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HHS has finally issued its omnibus HITECH Rules. Our firm will issue a comprehensive summary of the rules shortly, but of immediate import is the change to the breach reporting harm threshold. The modification will make it...more

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