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Everything You Need To Know About NPI Numbers

Verisys

Providers, employers, health plans, and payers use these numbers for billing purposes. CMS.gov The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the creation of a standard, unique health identifier for healthcare providers, which the NPI satisfies.

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Good Samaritan Hospital Settles Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Individuals that have suffered identity theft, medical fraud, tax fraud, other forms of fraud, and other actual misuses of their personal information, can submit claims for documented, unreimbursed extraordinary losses that are reasonably traceable to the data breach of up to a maximum of $5,000.

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70,000 Valle del Sol Community Health Patients Affected by Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

The exposed information included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, clinical/diagnosis information, health insurance member ID numbers, medical record numbers, and Medicare or Medicaid numbers.

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559,000 Individuals Affected by Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

MMC said it was unable to determine whether files were accessed or removed from its network; however, the parts of the network that were accessed contained files that included the protected health information of 559,000 patients. Many of the individuals affected were minors.

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Email Incidents Reported by Ultimate Care, CareOregon Advantage, and University Medical Center Southern Nevada

HIPAA Journal

Ultimate Care said no reports have been received that indicate there has been any misuse of patient information; however, as a precaution against identity theft and fraud, individuals whose Social Security numbers were impacted have been offered complimentary one-year memberships with a credit monitoring service.

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Data Breaches Reported by Henderson & Walton Women’s Center & Genesis Health Care Inc.

HIPAA Journal

Those emails contained patient information such as names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical information, health insurance information, driver’s license numbers, and state ID numbers. The information exposed varied from patient to patient. Notification letters were sent to all affected individuals in August.

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Staying Clear of the Medicare Exclusion List

Compliancy Group

How do people end up on the Medicaid Exclusion List, what are the consequences of being on the list, and can you ever get off the list? The Medicare Exclusion Database can trace its roots to 1996, when HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) was signed into law.