Tag: penalty
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HHS Lowers Annual Limits of Penalties for HIPAA Violations
Published in the Federal Register on April 30, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS“) issued a notification to inform the public that HHS is exercising its discretion in how it applies regulations concerning the assessment of civil money penalties (“CMPs“) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA“), as…
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HIPAA Illiteracy Is Considered Willful Neglect
KNOWING YOUR OFFICE’S VULNERABILITIES IS NOT ENOUGH Unsure of your practice’s vulnerabilities? Judge Rules in Favor of OCR and Requires $4.3 Million in Penalties for HIPAA Violations OCR’s investigation found that MD Anderson had written encryption policies and risk analyses had found that the lack of device-level encryption posed a high…
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The HIPAA Horizon: What Changes Can We Look Forward to in the Near Future?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) oversees compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Specifically, this entity is charged with ensuring that HIPAA-covered entities adhere to the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules. On Jan. 30, 2017, Pres. Trump issued an order referred to…
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Twenty States File Lawsuit against Government for the Affordable Care Act
Twenty states, including Alabama, have formed a coalition to file a lawsuit against the government claiming that the Affordable Care Act is now unconstitutional. According to the lawsuit, the states are claiming that since the GOP eliminated the tax penalty associated with the individual mandate, ObamaCare itself is no longer constitutional. The Tax Cuts and…
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New Video Shows Physicians How to Avoid Medicare Payment Penalties
The Quality Payment Program (QPP) is the new physician payment system created by MACRA and is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Because the QPP is new this year, the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and the AMA want to make sure physicians know what they have to do…
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Are You a Medicare Provider Without an EHR?
You can still avoid the MIPS 4 percent penalty by participating this year! In 2017 the TEST portion of MIPS allows a provider to submit one Quality measure (previously known as PQRS) for less than a 90 day period to potentially avoid a 4 percent MIPS penalty (to be incurred in 2019) on Medicare Part…