tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2022 Issue Q3

Reader Questions: Pocket This Advice on How to Properly Dispose of PHI

Question: We have some student helpers working at our practice this summer. We were going to have them dispose of records for patients that are no longer at our practice. Is there a specific way to go about this kind of records’ purge? Do they need to be trained? Ohio Subscriber Answer: Actually, there are specific examples outlined by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on the proper way to dispose of patients’ protected health information (PHI). In addition, your summertime staff should be thoroughly trained on these disposal protocols, too. Since the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules...

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