Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
HIPAA Compliance Starts To Take Off
After a rocky start, Health Information Portability And Accountability Act compliance is taking off, according to a survey by the American Health Information Management Association.
Of the HIPAA privacy officers, personnel and committee members surveyed by AHIMA, 81 percent said the staffs of their organizations were "supportive" of changes to privacy policies. Patient acceptance was agreed to be have improved from last year.
However, most are struggling with the goal of total compliance and, according to the survey, four issues are causing the most grief.
Do any of theses "problem areas" sound familiar?
Fifty percent of respondents said that rules governing accounting for release of PHI in particular needed modifications from the federal government.
To see the survey, go to: http://www.ahima.org/hipaa/survey.cfm
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