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Lack of Signed BAA Cost This Gastroenterology Group $31,000

Published on Mon Jun 19, 2017

Business agreements can protect everyone involved. If your practice takes business associate agreements lightly, it’s time to start putting some weight on the issue. That’s the takeaway from a recent HHS settlement involving a gastroenterology group that didn’t have a signed business associate agreement (BAA) on file for a vendor — and paid the price for that oversight. Background: On [...]
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