tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 24

HIPAA: Compliance Changes Do Not Equal Relaxed Standards

HHS still expects providers to pay for non-compliant behavior.Providers that base their security rule compliance on the Office for Civil Rights' enforcement history could get slapped with civil money penalties, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.That message came across loud and clear last month when HHS published the proposed enforcement rule in the Federal Register. The proposal will allow the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to enforce the security rule in the same fashion as the Office for Civil Rights chose to do with the privacy rule - through provider education and voluntary...

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