Is Your Healthcare Practice Prepared for a HIPAA Audit?
Audit. That one word causes a lot of fear in people, even law-abiding taxpayers who follow the rules and regulations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to a tee. The United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) conducts a different type of audit, although no less scary to healthcare organizations subject to it. […]
How Healthcare Providers Can Avoid Common HIPAA Errors
Medical errors are unavoidable. Sadly, these oversights sometimes result in tragic circumstances, as approximately 100,000 Americans die annually because of medical errors. As we mentioned in a previous blog, medical errors are a leading cause of death in the United States, costing the healthcare industry roughly $20 billion. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) […]