After a Breach Is Too Late: Ensure BA, Subcontractor Compliance Now
By EsqSocial Corporation 25/03/21
Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 3 (March 2021) - Sometime during the fall, a worker for a subcontractor of Humana Inc. decided to share actual member information from medical records via a Google document with people he was training to be medical coders, part of his attempt to run a “personal coding business endeavor.” Early last month, Humana had to notify 65,000 individuals, multiple state officials, the press and the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the worker’s data breach. In its...
By: Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)