This week’s updates include updates for cardiac rehabilitation programs and modifications to Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive program. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
This week’s updates include updates on physician specialty codes and additions and October update to the Medicare physician fee schedule database. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
The OCR continues to crack down on HIPAA breaches, but it also paused to take a look back at past incidents in two annual reports to Congress. The reports, which were released in May, summarize the reported 2011?2012 HIPAA breach and compliance activities as required by the HITECH Act. Although the data presented in the reports details the events from prior years, the causes of the breaches reported to and investigated by OCR are still relevant?and problematic?for healthcare organizations today.
