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Random HIPAA Audit Program Ramps Up
Can your HIPAA procedures withstand scrutiny?
Get ready: All signs point to an imminent return of random HIPAA audits from the Depart-ment of Health and Human Services.
In the Feb. 24 Federal Register, HHS an-nounced that it will conduct a HIPAA Covered En-tity and Business Associate Pre-Audit Survey. The survey will include up to 1,200 covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs), with an aim to determine their suitability for the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) HIPAA Audit Program.
The survey will gather information about CEs and BAs for OCR to assess the respondents’ size, complexity, and fitness for an audit, HHS states. The survey will collect recent number of patient visits or insured lives, use of electronic health information, revenue, business locations, and much more.
Significance: “This means that the 2014 HIPAA random audit program is now ramping up, with the first wave of contracts going out once the comment period is over,” warns Jim Sheldon-Dean, founder and director of compliance services for Lewis Creek Systems in Charlotte, Vt. CMS will take comments on the information collection request until April 25.
“The time to get ready is now,” Sheldon-Dean urges.
Note: You can view the Federal Register posting at www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/ 02/24/2014-03830/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-public-comment-request.
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