Urology Coding Alert

Presented by Wayne J. Miller

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The speaker for the teleconference, Wayne J. Miller is a founding partner of the Compliance Law Group, Los Angeles - a law firm focused on healthcare industry legal compliance. Wayne has practiced healthcare business and regulatory law throughout his 21-year career. Among its specialties, the firm has extensive expertise in HIPAA privacy and security rule documentation, training and compliance. He represents both individual and institutional clients, as well as healthcare-related businesses. Wayne is a frequent speaker for The Coding Institute national teleconferences on healthcare transactional and regulatory issues. Thank you very much Mandy and good afternoon everyone. I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about a rule that is going to be coming into effect in about a week and my comments today are, I think, going to be based in part on an assumption that many of you may still be working on getting ready for this deadline that is coming up.  Therefore we are going to try and focus on these rules and really think about what you should be doing right now, the portion of the rules you ought to be thinking about most significantly right now and then getting an overview of the portion of the rules that you might want to be thinking about over the long-term. 

I think if you have had some experience with HIPAA, this has been a long time coming, this is really the last of the troika of rules that you have to be worried about and you may have kind of a blas or you may even be groaning about, oh! yes, another HIPAA issue.  But I think that some of the events that have occurred in the last month or two in terms of disclosures from big companies - and I know they are not in healthcare - but all are dealing with really significant security breaches really bring home the need for you to consider these sets of rules to be very important and on the top of the desk of those who might be regulating and investigating it.  Basically the ChoicePoint and [...]