Some see them as partners, some as payers, some as reluctant, recalcitrant payers. A recent survey of Managed Care Organizations, however, reveals that many of them also believe in multi-pronged approaches as patients leave the hospital, including nursing, social services and home-health visits, often offering some of these services on their own.Many of the MAOs […]
Try this. Set up a Google News Alert for the keywords “Security Breach” and count the number of incidents that reach your email inbox every day. Had you done this on May 15, you would have read about 400 breaches by now. Protecting patient health information is serious business; failing to fulfill HIPAA obligations […]
By Roger Shindell This week, we wrap up our HIPAA series by pivoting away from from focusing specifically on survey results and turning our attention to the state of HIPAA compliance across the industry. To do this, we review random audits conducted in 2012 by the CMS Office of Civil Rights, the staggering results […]
Again, thanks to everyone who participated in the Home Care Technology Report HIPAA Compliance Survey we ran from February 23 through March 26. The purpose of the survey was to gather information in a manner that would allow us to compare it to the Ponemon Institute Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and […]
