tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 4

Industry Note: Watch Out for HIPAA 'Teeth' Biting You in 2016

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) closed out 2015 with a booming December for healthcare breaches, logging 23 reported breach incidents. Of the 23 total, most involved healthcare providers (19) with four affecting health plans. Twelve breaches involved unauthorized access/disclosure, followed by theft (7), hacking/IT incidents (3), and one incident of improper disposal. OCR posted these reported breach incidents on its so-called “Wall of Shame” (https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breach_report.jsf), which displays HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals. Most also involved paper/films, accounting for nine of the total breaches, plus an additional breach that involved both paper/films...

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