Tag: HIPAA Compliance

The Clock Is Ticking: HIPAA Small Breach Notifications Due March 1st

The Clock Is Ticking: HIPAA Small Breach Notifications Due March 1st

March 1, 2022, is the date by which HIPAA-covered entities must notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of “small” breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered during calendar-year 2021. A small breach involves fewer than 500 individuals. HIPAA Small Breach Notification Requirements HIPAA requires covered […]
Billing for COVID-19 Care

Billing for COVID-19 Care

In unprecedented crisis of COVID-19, the first instinct is to triage our activities, often weeding out the ones that seem to be the least important. Some of those will never surface again and just become part of the detritus left behind. Tucked into the recent CARES Act, the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act […]