Healthcare providers receive remittance advice from either insurance companies or patients (payers) when payments are being made for medical services. But, how often and why? Let’s find out!
So, what exactly does DOT compliance mean? What sort of training does one need to complete to become compliant? Let’s dive into these questions, along with the risks of not meeting DOT compliance standards in the transportation industry.
What does a HIPAA risk assessment look like? Is there a specific template to follow? In this blog, we will go over what exactly a risk assessment is, why you need it, and steps to take to create your own risk assessment template.
So how do you go about upholding these guidelines to protect all of this information? Why, through the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules of course! These terms may sound interchangeable, but don’t let them fool you! They both have their own distinct roles to play when it comes to HIPAA as a whole.
It’s all too common knowledge that HIPAA violations are still a problem, and these problems continue to build every year! In this blog, we will be going over some of the most common HIPAA violations as it relates to Protected Health Information (PHI).
HIPAA contains some of the most detailed and comprehensive requirements of any privacy and data security law to date, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back to before there was federal protection of health information. Why was it created in the first place?
What is a HIPAA violation? How does it happen? What are some HIPAA violations examples? We’ve got all of those questions answered and more in this blog post.
If the OCR determines that your organization violated HIPAA, how much of a fine could you anticipate? It depends. The truth is that both civil and criminal penalties may involve monetary fines. Depending on the level of the breach, the monetary fines vary. Let’s break these down.
Like many things within the HIPAA laws, the frequency of training is up to interpretation. But, let’s nail down how often HIPAA training needs to occur.
In this blog post, we give you an overview of HIPAA compliance for dental offices. We cover what the regulation requires and some best practices for staying compliant.