Q: We are a doctor’s office in a small town. Recently, one of our patients threw away some papers containing PHI in a wastebasket in the waiting room. Another patient’s child later took them out of the wastebasket. The child’s parent brought the papers up to the desk and apologized. Is this a privacy breach? Are we responsible for the papers even though we turned them over to the patient?
Medicare billing edits such as National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits and Medically Unlikely Edits (MUE) must be resolved at their root cause so that they do not continue to occur on claim
Creating and maintaining an ethical work culture is everyone's responsibility. Always set an example of respect, honesty, and fairness for your family, friends, and colleagues.
The 2009 HITECH Act created the breach reporting rule. The following will summarize the rule, paying specific attention to the modifications that were detailed in the Omnibus Rule of January 23, 2013.
The Mississippi State Department of Health in Jackson, Mississippi, recently notified 30,799 patients of an email breach that gave a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contractor unauthorized access to patient information, according to a press release
Q. Do laptops need to be encrypted if there is no PHI stored on them? Employees do use them to access PHI, but the PHI is stored remotely. We have a policy that states that employees are not allowed to save PHI to laptops.
