Compliancy Group

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

At least 6,242,589 records containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) were breached in October 2022. Unauthorized disclosures resulted in the most significant number of breaches in October 2022, with more than 4,145,396 records. October 2022 Healthcare Breaches and Hacking. Find Out More!

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Compliancy Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Business associates reported 2,817,598 records breached in August, while covered entities tallied 898,177 breached files. Data breaches affected 3,715,755 records containing protected health information (PHI) during August. . In August 2022, there were 48 large-scale breaches reported, 34 of which affected healthcare providers.

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Compliancy Group

APRIL 4, 2022

In March 2022, there were 30 large-scale breaches reported involving 1,285,716 patients. Most March 2022 healthcare breaches affected healthcare providers, with 21 incidents. March 2022 Healthcare Breaches and Hacking. Hacking continued its streak at the top of the list of causes of healthcare breaches in March 2022.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Overall, September healthcare breaches affected 2,453,840 records containing protected health information (PHI). In September 2022, there were 64 large-scale breaches reported, 46 of which affected healthcare providers. September 2022 Healthcare Breaches and Hacking. of all reported records breached during the month.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 30, 2023

Breaches dropped significantly in December 2022, with 2,169,696 records containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) breached, down from 6,904,441 records in November. In December 2022, there were 38 large-scale breaches reported, 23 of which affected healthcare providers. of affected patients.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 22, 2022

Covered entities and business associates reported breaches affecting 4,285,997 records containing protected health information (PHI). . In May 2022, there were 96 large-scale breaches reported, most of which affected healthcare providers, with 48 incidents. May 2022 Healthcare Breaches and Hacking. Learn More! ×

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Compliancy Group

MAY 13, 2022

In April 2022, there were 44 large-scale breaches reported involving 1,612,672 patients’ data. Most April 2022 healthcare breaches affected healthcare providers, with 29 incidents. April 2022 Healthcare Breaches and Hacking. Hacking continued its streak at the top of the list of causes of healthcare breaches in April 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In 2022, as cyberattacks globally rose by 38% year-on-year, healthcare became the third-most-attacked industry (behind government and education), recording an increase of 74% and reporting up to 1,463 incidents per week. The following is a guest article by Sam Manjarres, Sr.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At least 6,904,441 records containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) were breached in November 2022. After a one-month hiatus, Hacking/IT incidents reclaimed their usual place as the cause of the most significant amount of PHI breached in November 2022, with more than 5,374,670 records. Find Out More!

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 20, 2024

On October 31, 2017, OCR initiated a compliance review of HVHS after the media reported that HVHS had experienced a ransomware attack. In May of 2022, OCR received a breach notification report from BCAA. The settlement is the third ransomware settlement entered into by OCR.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 22, 2022

Covered entities and business associates reported breaches affecting 5,843,989 records containing protected health information (PHI). . In June 2022, there were 67 large-scale breaches reported, most of which affected healthcare providers, with 54 incidents. June 2022 Healthcare Breaches and Hacking. Learn More! ×

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Med Com Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

December 2, 2022 . Austin, Texas) Med Claims Compliance (MCC) is pleased to announce one of their newest customers in Northeast Texas. This streamlined approach enables care providers to focus solely on their patients – without the burden of data entry and complex coding while knowing a high standard of regulatory compliance is upheld.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 29, 2022

In early December of 2021, Eye Care Leaders (Eye Care), an electronic medical record vendor supplying business associate services to eye care providers across the country, discovered it had incurred a data breach. Eye Care then conducted a forensic exam in April of 2022. × HIPAA Compliance Simplified.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 31, 2022

Let’s Simplify Compliance Do you need help with HIPAA? Compliancy Group can help! × Automated HIPAA Compliance. Close CHS had previously submitted contract claims to the State Department for the cost of a secure electronic medical record (EMR) system to store all patients’ medical records.

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Provider Trust

JULY 25, 2022

Continuous compliance begins with automated monitoring, cross-departmental communication, and population-specific workflow. In a recent webinar , ProviderTrust Founder Michael Rosen and Chief Compliance Officer Donna Thiel detailed ways in which your organization can effectively monitor your unique provider populations.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 6, 2022

Let’s Simplify Compliance Learn how to protect your business against breaches by signing up for our webinar! Breach notification is required as part of complete HIPAA compliance. However, as of January 6, 2022, there was no breach reported for Ciox. What is Being Done About the Ciox Vendor Email Breach.

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Compliancy Group

MAY 23, 2022

Providers affected by the EMR breach were notified of the incident on March 1, 2022, so that they may take steps to notify patients. Let’s Simplify Compliance HIPAA and cybersecurity go hand-in-hand. × Simplified HIPAA Compliance. What Did the Breach Notice Tell Us? Protect your practice by becoming compliant today!

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . Under the eHealth Exchange model , participants retain full responsibility for and control over their patients’ data – including patient matching, cybersecurity, legal compliance and audit logging.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

2023 was the worst-ever year for breached healthcare records with breached records increasing by 156% from 2022 to 133,068,542 breached records, beating the previous record of 113 million records set in 2015. In 2023, an average of 373,788 healthcare records were breached every day.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 21, 2022

For example, pharmacies and other healthcare suppliers comprised 14% of the hacks that took place in early 2022. They use electronic medical records and similar healthcare technologies to steal as much sensitive data as they can for ransom.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This creates an ideal environment for cyber criminals to hack into electronic medical records (EMR) and access sensitive data such as names, birth dates, and social security numbers. DataSecOps, or Data Security Operations, provides a single, integrated platform to streamline and automate data access, security, and compliance.

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AIHC

APRIL 5, 2022

Read Part 1 entitled “ Managing Denials Is Important to Good A/R Hygiene ” posted March 22, 2022, and Part 2 entitled “ Understanding How Payers Deny Claims. Providers may take documentation “short cuts” or feel overwhelmed with implementation of a new EMR (electronic medical record) system and clone or make documentation errors.

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Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Electronic medical record software and social media offer wide-ranging ways for health care providers to connect with their patients and the public. a commitment to protecting patient confidentiality, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations, etc.). A clear purpose statement of the employer’s goals (i.e.,

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Health Care Law Brief

APRIL 12, 2023

79452 (2022)). Part C Reforms Pursuant to the Final Rule, if an MA plan prior authorized an item or service or made a pre-service determination of coverage or payment, the MA plan may not later deny coverage for lack of medical necessity and may not reopen the decision, except for “good cause” (as defined in 42 C.F.R. 405.902).

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For the third successive month, the number of healthcare data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has fallen, with 49 breaches of 500 or more records reported in August– well below the 12-month average of 58 breaches per month. Largest Healthcare Data Breaches Reported in August 2022.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In late February of 2019, Gulf Coast discovered that between early September of 2018 and early February of 2019, the contractor had impermissibly accessed Gulf Coasts electronic medical record (EMR) system and accessed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of approximately 34,310 individuals.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New tracking guidance as of November 2022 Last fall, the U.S. Since the 2022 announcement from HHS, many little-known “Data Clean Room” applications have come out of the woodwork. As such, for healthcare digital marketers, the challenge of separating PHI from marketing behavioral data and other non-PHI patient data was manageable.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Some applications will assist in ensuring claims meet medical necessity criteria and analyzing extensive payer guidelines and clinical notes for comprehensive compliance. This personalized communication will be not only reactive but also proactive, predicting the patient’s needs based on their medical history and preferences.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the calendar turns to 2022, we expect to see continued growth in popularity of digital healthcare management tools like text communications, digital wallets, text-to-pay, payment plans, and QR codes that point to digital portals.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Recognizing the role pharmacists are ready and able to play as accessible, convenient health care providers, Kentucky became the first state in the nation to enable pharmacists to offer potentially life-saving colon cancer screenings in 2022.

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