Home Health & Hospice Week
Email Hacking Leads To HIPAA Breach At Southern Hospice Chain
A hospice chain has had to report a HIPAA data breach. On Dec. 22, 2022, Legacy Operating Company, LLC d/b/a/ Legacy Hospice filed notice of a data breach with the Maine Attorney General after learning that an unauthorized party was able to access several employee email accounts containing confidential patient data, notes Richard Console Jr. with Console & Associates. The HHS Office for Civil Rights lists the incident as a "Hacking/IT incident" via email. The incident resulted in an unauthorized party gaining access to consumers’ names, Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, dates of birth, dates of death, driver’s license numbers, government identification numbers, financial account information, credit or debit card information, passport numbers, and protected health information, Console notes in online analysis. After confirming that consumer data was leaked, Legacy Hospice began sending out data breach notification letters to all individuals who were impacted. The chain operates in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, according to its website.
Home Health & Hospice Week
- OASIS:
Increased OASIS-E Burden Slams HHAs
Agencies are ringing in the new year with increased workloads. OASIS updates always strain home [...] - Billing:
Review Your NOA Processes In Wake Of Related System Changes Jan. 1
Reminder: No NOA means no reimbursement. One Notice of Admission Medicare claims system change that [...] - Reimbursement:
Don’t Let Coding, HIPPS Code Mismatches Derail Your NOAs
Plus: A centralized billing goof could doom your reimbursement. Knowing what not to do is [...] - Regulations:
CMS Issues New VBP Resources
Rural add-on extension officially hits the books. Don’t neglect Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing, just [...] - Hospice:
Hospices’ Reporting Burden Will Increase, If GAO Gets Its Way
Additional reporting makes sense for hospitals and SNFs, not hospices, HHS maintains. Hospices aren’t doing [...] - Labor Law:
FTC Proposes Ditching Non-Competes Across The Board
Give the feds your 2 cents by March 10. Your labor landscape could look very [...] - Industry Note:
COVID PHE Extended Again — Perhaps For The Last Time
Enjoy those PHE-affiliated regulatory flexibilities while you can. On Jan. 11, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra [...] - Industry Note:
VBID Hospice Carve-In Letter To Hit Hospice Mailboxes
Hospices should soon see a letter in their mailboxes aiming to explain the Medicare Advantage [...] - Industry Note:
Provider Relief Fund Reporting Period Starts, With More On The Way
If you received more than $10,000 in one or more Provider Relief Fund (General or [...] - Industry Note:
Combat High GIP Claim Denial Rate With New MAC Education
The hospice General Inpatient (GIP) level of care is under heavy scrutiny, so a new [...] - Industry Note:
Email Hacking Leads To HIPAA Breach At Southern Hospice Chain
A hospice chain has had to report a HIPAA data breach. On Dec. 22, 2022, [...]
