Home Health & Hospice Week

Regulations:

ASK THESE 8 VITAL RED FLAGS RULE QUESTIONS

Going through the motions to prevent patient identity theft isn't good enough. Be sure to ask -- and answer -- these followup questions in the event of potential ID theft, recommends Cyndee Weston of the American Medical Billing Association.

• How do we control a breach?

• How do we determine what happened and what information was subject to the improper use?

• How do we mitigate the breach (including recovering lost data for internal purposes)?

• What do we need to do to ensure this doesn't happen again?

• Do we have to notify anyone?

• If so, who must we notify and through what means?

• If we don't "have to" notify, should we notify anyway?

• Is there anyone else we need to notify (clients, regulators, etc.)?