tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 11

Practice Management: Avoid Brutal HIPAA Fines With These 3 Steps

Take HITECH lessons to heart and protect your bottom line.  They might look like a barrage of random numbers, but two recent reports about HIPAA breaches actually contain nuggets of wisdom that you can use to protect your patients private health information.  Make sure you apply the following important lessons from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)-mandated reports to keep your general surgery practice out of the penalty zone. Source: The reports assess the most recent calendar years with complete data — 2011 and 2012, and are titled “Breaches of Unsecured Protected...

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