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Have a Holly Jolly SRA!

The end of the year is approaching and here at Healthcare Compliance Pros, we are ready for the holidays! However, with the end of the year comes the deadline to complete a Security Risk Analysis (SRA) for 2019 as...

$3 Million HIPAA Settlement for Failing to Encrypt Mobile Devices

Mobile devices such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets have many beneficial uses in the healthcare facility if the appropriate safeguards are in place! Mobile storage devices such as external hard drives and...

Multiple HIPAA Violations Leads to a $2.5 Million Civil Monetary Penalty

For one covered entity, violations of the HIPAA Security and Breach Notification Rules ended up costing them over $2.15 million! The covered entity has already paid the full civil monetary penalty (CMP) and did...

OCR Reminds Us of the Importance of Protecting Patients with HIV from Discrimination

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a successful corrective action and resolution for a complaint against a covered entity. According to OCR, the complaint alleged that Florida Orthopaedic unlawfully...

Proposed Changes to the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Announced

On October 9. 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposed changes that would update the Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

5 Tips to Consider Prior to Posting on Social Media Sites

It was not that long ago when an employee at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center was fired for posting a patient's protected health information (PHI) on Facebook. The employee had posted a screenshot of a...

The Power of HIPAA and Social Media

Did you know that a whopping 95% percent of people in the United States use the internet and 86% use it every day? Users of social media account for 74% of internet users, and the average daily time spent...

HIPAA and Safe Texting Practices

Telephones have been a staple of communication for as long as most of us can remember! The cell phone has noticeably changed the way we communicate both personally and increasingly professionally with the...

New Training Course Available: Compliance for Your Practice

Our Compliance for Your Practice training is now available! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) previously required healthcare organizations to ensure that training was being provided on unmodified...

7 Important Facts to be Aware of for the PFS Proposed Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule they believe will ensure clinicians spend more time providing high-value care for patients instead of filing cumbersome paperwork. The...