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The History of Healthcare Compliance

MedTrainer

At its core, healthcare compliance ensures the quality of care, patient safety, and integrity of healthcare systems. Over the years, healthcare compliance has evolved significantly, driven by changing regulations, advances in technology, and a growing emphasis on patient-centric care. What is Healthcare Compliance?

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Safeguarding Against Medical Identity Theft Training

American Medical Compliance

When someone uses your personal information, such as your name, Social Security number, or Medicare number, to make false claims to Medicare and other health insurers without your consent, it is known as medical identity theft. To become certified, please visit us at: American Medical Compliance (AMC). trillion in 2015.

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Editorial: 5 Gaps in HIPAA and How They Are Being Filled

HIPAA Journal

The passage of HIPAA resulted in multiple benefits for the health insurance industry, the healthcare industry, and the people that they serve. For example, the Administrative Requirements (Part 162) helped reduce insurance fraud and accelerated eligibility inquiries, authorization requests, and claims processing.

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What is a HIPAA Violation?

HIPAA Journal

To best answer the question what is a HIPAA violation, it is necessary to explain what HIPAA is, who it applies to, and what constitutes a violation; for although most people believe they know what a HIPAA compliance violation is, evidence suggests otherwise. What is HIPAA and Who Does It Apply To? Other Types of HIPAA Law Violation.

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Editorial: Lessons from Biggest HIPAA Breaches of 2022

HIPAA Journal

That’s more than any other year to date apart from 2015 when Anthem Inc reported its 78.8 The databases contained extensive patient information, such as contact information, health insurance information, medical record numbers, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and medical information. million records.

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How to Stay HIPAA Compliant with Audit Logs

Total HIPAA

A federal grand jury indicted a former MedStar Ambulance paramedic on counts of identity theft and fraud. He altered patient records as part of a scheme to steal narcotics from a local hospital from January 2013 to May 2015. How to Maintain Compliance with HIPAA. Keeping detailed logs is the first step toward HIPAA compliance.

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2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report

HIPAA Journal

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. million records in 2021 to 51.9 million records in 2022.