BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 6

HIPAA Changed Again Are You Compliant

Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) updated the penalties that providers, including organizations, individuals, and/or business associates, will face for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These updates concern changes to the "culpability" aspect of HIPAA's penalties. Under HIPAA, and its counterpart the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act ("HITECH"), based on the updates, providers face penalties for violating HIPAA based on their level of "culpability" when committing the violation. Tier One: The provider did not know and could not reasonably have known of the...

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