HIPAA Compliance

HHS Signals End to Health Plan Identifiers in New Proposed Rule

December 21, 2018 - Years of pushback from industry stakeholders has motivated an HHS proposal to eliminate a federal requirement for identifying health plans in HIPAA transactions. As everyone prepares to break for the holidays, the federal agency formally announced a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to eliminate the health plan identifier (HPID) and the...

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HHS Pilot Encourages Streamlined Health Plan HIPAA Compliance

by Thomas Beaton

HHS is launching a pilot program that streamlines reviews of health plan HIPAA compliance, the organization announced in an email to the CMS listserv. The HHS HIPAA Administrative Simplification...

KPMG: Cybersecurity Breaches on the Rise for Healthcare Payers

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare payers are increasingly becoming targets of cybersecurity breaches, both malicious and accidental, according to a new survey from KPMG.  Cybersecurity incidents resulting in...

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