Private Practice #1 Target for HIPAA Compliance
Yikes! Want to know why all this HIPAA stuff is so important for medical practices? Look at who is Number One on the hit list – private practices. Are YOU in compliance???
Here’s what HHS says:
“Since the compliance date in April 2003, HHS has received over 90,001 HIPAA complaints. We have resolved 94% of complaints received through investigation and enforcement (over 22,026)!
The most common types of covered entities that have been required to take corrective action, in order of frequency:
1. Private Practices;
2. General Hospitals;
3. Outpatient Facilities;
4. Health Plans (group health plans and health insurance issuers); and,
5. Pharmacies.
The compliance issues investigated most are, in order of frequency:
A. Impermissible uses and disclosures of protected health information;
B. Lack of safeguards of protected health information;
C. Lack of patient access to their protected health information;
D. Uses or disclosures of more than the minimum necessary protected health information; and
E. Lack of administrative safeguards of electronic protected health information.”
Habanero, Inc. has developed a basic HIPAA & HITECH Privacy Policy & Procedure product that is customized to YOUR practice, provides easy to follow instructions for your Privacy Officer, personalized set of HIPAA Privacy forms and documentation & training materials for your staff, including a staff assessment and acknowledgement process. Call today at (631) 244-5661 to get your own and be prepared for HHS’ OCR Privacy auditors.
