The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services has begun Phase 2 of its audit program under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In this ...
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) published a new toolkit to help healthcare organizations prepare for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Phase 2 ...
What covered entities and business associates can do to prepare for the next round of audits. On July 11, the HIPAA Phase 2 audits commenced when 167 covered entities[1] received notice of a desk ...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights on Monday initiated the second phase of its HIPAA Audit Program. Speaking at the 24th National HIPAA Summit in the District of ...
Linda Sanches, OCR senior adviser, discusses compliance audits at HIPAA conference. Will the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration create a permanent HIPAA compliance ...
Investigations by the Office for Civil Rights related to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act will no longer be initiated by only complaints and self-reported ...
In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of ...
Compliance audits in 2026 are exposing how everyday shortcuts—like storing patient images on a personal phone or emailing intake forms—are now among the top HIPAA red flags for medspas. These aren't ...
OCR's Deven McGraw spoke at last week's HIPAA summit. Federal regulators will start remote HIPAA compliance "desk audits" for business associates in November. And more comprehensive onsite audits of ...