tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2022 Issue Q2

Compliance: Use Fed Toolkit To Halt HIPAA Breach Vulnerability

Up your cybersecurity game for your surgical practice. Security breaches were up in 2021, so your surgery practice needs to increase your focus and efforts to reduce data risks in 2022. Fact: Scammers hijacked millions of individuals’ protected health information (PHI) in 2021, making it a “turbulent [year] as cybercriminals took advantage of hospitals and healthcare systems responding to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Lisa J. Pino, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) director, in a blog post Problem: “The HIPAA Security Rule requires that organizations implement ‘reasonable and appropriate&rsquo...

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