Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Note:

Watch Out for HIPAA 'Teeth' Biting You in 2016

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) closed out 2015 with a booming December for healthcare breaches, logging 23 reported breach incidents. Of the 23 total, most involved healthcare providers (19) with four affecting health plans. Twelve breaches involved unauthorized access/disclosure, followed by theft (7), hacking/IT incidents (3), and one incident of improper disposal. OCR posted these reported breach incidents [...]
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