HIPAA Audit and Enforcement Update - New Rules and New Directions in Enforcement
July 15, 2020 - CA USMentorhealth
mentorhealth84@gmail.com
Phone:800-385-1607
Overview: In this session we will review the enforcement actions taken by HHS and state Attorneys General to illustrate the issues concerned and explain how to avoid them, and the penalties that can result when they are not avoided. Issues will be explored in depth in several areas in order to explain the regulatory requirements and the means for meeting them. We will also discuss the HIPAA audit program and how it works, and discuss the areas that caused the most issues in the 2012 audits and the areas that were targeted in the 2016 audits. We will explore what kind of issues were most prevalent and what kind of entities had the most problems, and show where entities need to improve their compliance the most. We will also explore the typical risk issues that lead to breaches of health information and see how those issues may be targets for auditors and enforcement action in the future. We will examine the updated 2018 HIPAA Audit Protocol as well as other questionnaires that have been used in the past and may be used to help prepare an organization for a future review.