Dear providers, It’s important for you to know that HIPAA compliance covers the cybersecurity measures necessary for EVV. That information is straight from an email issued by ANCOR, which cites the EVV legislation as its source, along with Tim Hill, the Director of CMCS. Last year, as a service to our members, OPRA partnered with […]
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Key Point: If you don’t document it, you can’t prove you have followed privacy regulations — meaning you could face penalties. Security policies and procedures are mandated under the Health Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the regs are very specific about the policies and procedures you need to implement. Through your documentation of
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Since federal privacy rules require lots of documentation, a frequently asked question is: How long do we have to keep all the documents that accumulate as a result of compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)? The answer: Six years — and that means six years after the date of a document’s
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That is one of the first questions that comes up about Private Health information, often referred to as PHI. Just what do we mean by PHI? Here’s the short answer from the Feds: PHI includes any individually identifiable health information held or transmitted by an organization required to follow HIPAA rules. Organizations required to protect
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