From Report on Patient Privacy - In his first public comments since his consulting firm officially “exited the field” after wrapping up site visits for the initial 20 compliance audits, the top HIPAA official at KPMG says covered entities (CEs) are failing to complete basic tasks, such as conducting a risk analysis and giving out a notice of private practices. Michael Ebert, national HIPAA services leader for KPMG, which is performing the audits for OCR, also said a review revealed a pharmacy chain that had failed to provide enough physical space to conduct medical consultations. “We have walked into entities that are n Read more
From Report on Patient Privacy - From the look of things, the small cardiac surgery practice in Phoenix completely ignored most of the privacy requirements from the day they went into effect in 2003, and later did the same when the security rule came online two years later, until one winter’s day in 2009 when the Office for Civil Rights came knocking. What first got OCR’s attention was a complaint alleging that Phoenix Cardiac Surgery was posting… Read more
From Report on Medicare Compliance - Compliance has come a long way in the past two decades, but some physicians and board members are still not pulling their weight, says Lewis Morris, who was a top official for the HHS Office of Inspector General for 25 years, until his retirement April 1. “Compliance has come into its own. It’s no longer a passing occurrence,” Morris, former chief counsel to the Inspector General, told RMC in an exclusive… Read more
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