This week’s Medicare updates include the release of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, a fact sheet regarding proposals for the Quality Payment Program in 2019, the End-Stage Renal Disease and Durable Medical Equipment proposed rule, and more!
CMS began rolling out new cards to Medicare beneficiaries in April and recently announced that wave one of the mailing has been completed. The new cards are intended to help protect beneficiaries’ Social Security Numbers.
The HIPAA Security Rule requires information systems activity review, but a number of covered entities and business associates have yet to implement a robust security program that includes monitoring audit logs. Per the preamble to the Omnibus Rule, if audit logs are generated and you’re not looking at them periodically, that could be considered willful neglect.
OCR’s June cybersecurity report focuses on software bugs and patches designed to fix them. Software bugs can make your computer systems vulnerable and put electronic personal health information (ePHI) at risk.
