tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 12

HIPAA: URAC STEPS INTO HIPAA SECURITY ACCREDITATION

Health care providers that want an outside seal of approval for their Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act security standard compliance efforts can soon turn to Washington, DC-based accrediting organization URAC. URAC March 10 released a draft set of HIPAA security accreditation standards that it intends to finalize later this year. “The purpose of this accreditation program is to verify that an organization has put in place the necessary infrastructure and implemented necessary processes to comply with the HIPAA security rule,” says URAC President and CEO Garry Carneal. The standards were crafted to lay out the principles...

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