tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue Q3

Reader Question: Is the HIPAA Audit Program Gone for Good?

Question: With all the recent news on increased HIPAA enforcement, should we be worried about a federal audit of our privacy controls? SuperCoder Subscriber Answer: Though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Audit Program online resource is still available for review, the HIPAA Phase 2 program isn’t up and running anymore. “The HIPAA Audit Program has, essentially, been terminated, which is too bad, because the audits, when implemented properly, can be a valuable tool for discovering where there are weaknesses in compliance, either by the fault of covered entities...

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