On February 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a notice in the Federal Register regarding reinstatement of the Health Information Portability and ...

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 ...

Healthcare organizations are under pressure to automate medical coding without compromising the security of protected health information. Deploying an AI medical coding platform introduces new data ...

Recently, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced that it has implemented its HIPAA Phase II Audit Program. Some entities may have already received initial emails from the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is gearing up to kick off in October its first-ever round of HIPAA compliance audits of business associates. And the agency is also developing a variety of ...

Most employers have become accustomed to the IRS and Department of Labor periodically auditing their qualified retirement plans. Now, employers must also be ready for HIPAA audits. Processing Content ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights plans to survey 115 HIPAA-covered entities to get feedback on the auditing process, according to a notice published this week in ...

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 ...

Financial organizations that are business associates can expect a wave of HIPAA desk audits to evaluate the HIPAA compliance efforts of business associates. These audits have a limited focus and are ...

Since the public comment period closed on Mar. 7, 2025, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has been reviewing the thousands of comments posted on the Federal Register in response to its proposed HIPAA ...