Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
Pocket This Handy HIPAA Security Rule Primer
Tip: Keep staff in the loop on HIPAA security. During the pandemic, there’s been an uptick of cybersecurity incidents. Unfortunately, healthcare has been a primary target at a time when minds and money are focused on more critical areas. As the dust starts to settle on this new normal, your practice may want to revisit and revise old policies to address the continuing risks of COVID-19 and how that impacts HIPAA. Take a look at this breakdown of necessary safeguards and requirements under the HIPAA Security Rule, with correlating examples, to manage your security risks and beef up your organization’s compliance, courtesy of guidance from the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement
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Pocket This Handy HIPAA Security Rule Primer
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