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HIPAA:

Play Taps for Phase 2 of the Audit Program

Published on Thu Jul 11, 2019

Don’t expect more onsite visits. Three years after the kickoff of Phase 2 desktop audits, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) plan for escalating onsite audits has vanished. Read on to see what this change might mean for your lab’s HIPAA compliance plans. Check the Audit Trail Although the HHS audit resource is still available online at www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/compliance-enforcement/audit/index.html, [...]
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