tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 36
Avoid Spending Thousands to Clean up HIPAA Compliance Issues
Follow these 8 tips to comply with security rule.How would your practice handle the notification process if your breached HIPAA laws? As you read on page xx, CMS had to notify 13,775 Medicare beneficiaries that their privacy had been breached, which likely cost the agency and/or its contractors well into the six figures, if not higher, in employee resources, mailing costs, and legal consulting fees. Even a much smaller breach could put your practice into financial disarray, considering the fact that you'd not only want legal advice, but you'd have to begin the notification process. Luckily, you...
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