Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Compliance:

Don't Get Burned–Report Your Breaches Now Or Risk a Higher Penalty Later

The HHS says there is no excuse for dragging your feet on reporting a HIPAA violation. Haste makes waste or so they say, but in the case of notifying the feds about a HIPAA breach the opposite is true. The sooner you alert the HHS secretary to the loss of protected health information (PHI) the better—don’t stew over the breach [...]
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