tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2016 Issue 6

Reader Question: Recognize Breach Under HIPAA

Question: An employee at our general surgery practice accessed records for which he had no legitimate reason to do so. He didn’t tell anyone outside our office about any of the information he accessed. Is this still a reportable breach incident, even though the information didn’t leave our office? SuperCoder Subscriber Answer: To find the answer, you must go back to the definition of a breach — any acquisition, access, use or disclosure in violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, says Jim Sheldon-Dean, director of compliance services for Lewis Creek Systems LLC in Charlotte, Vermont. In this...

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