tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2021 Issue Q1

Industry Notes: HIPAA Notification Focuses on COVID-19 Vaccination Registration

If your practice is scrambling to assist patients with COVID-19 vaccination appointments via web-based scheduling applications (WBSAs), you and your vendor can heave a HIPAA sigh of relief. On Jan. 19, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced another COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE)-inspired notification of enforcement discretion. This one concerns covered entities (CEs) use of WBSAs to assist their patients with COVID-19 vaccine registration. OCR “will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for violations of the HIPAA Rules on covered healthcare providers or their business associate [BAs] in connection with the good faith...

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