Dec 19, 2016 | HSN, MACRA, Risk Assessment
MACRA regulation (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act) commences January 1, 2017. MACRA significantly changes the way physicians are paid and overall Medicare reimbursements. Learn more in our 80 second video The post MACRA regulation commences January 1,...
Dec 15, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Peachtree Orthopedics has experienced a huge data breach that affects over 500,000 patients. It seems that Peachtree was a victim of a hacker who stole the information and went a step further by issuing a press release: It all began many months ago when we...
Dec 13, 2016 | HSN, MACRA
MACRA starts in January, 2017 and requires a HIPAA Security Risk Assessment The post MACRA Requires a HIPAA Security Risk Assessment appeared first on HIPAA Secure Now!.
Nov 30, 2016 | HSN, MACRA, Risk Assessment
MORRISTOWN, NJ (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 21, 2016 HIPAA Secure Now! is set to handle security risk assessments that will be required of medical practices, under the new MACRA regulation (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act), which commences January 1, 2017. HIPAA...
Nov 29, 2016 | HIPAA Audits, HSN, Phishing, Security Training
In a cruel twist of fate, health care entities are being phished using an OCR (HHS Office of Civil Rights) email as the bait. Here is the context: HHS/OCR is the governmental entity in charge of enforcing the HIPAA statutes. Back in May, we reported that OCR...
