tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2024 Issue Q1

HIPAA: Impose Sanction Policies for Wrongdoers, OCR Says

Tip: Make employee training match duties. Stopping a data breach incident and retrieving the compromised records is just the start of mitigation requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The law also requires you to levy sanctions on staffers who cause inappropriate protected health information (PHI) disclosures under HIPAA. Background: According to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), “Sanction policies can be used to address the intentional actions of malicious insiders, such as the stealing of data by identity-theft rings, as well as workforce member failures to comply with policies...

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