by Gary Pritts | Apr 30, 2019 | General News
In October 2018, Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados, Portugal’s GDPR supervisory authority, fined a hospital (Centro Hospitalar Barreiro Montijo) 400,000 euros for 3 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) violations. The violations stem from the...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 14, 2019 | Business Associates & Others, DD Boards, General News, HIPAA, Large Providers, Physician Practices
Health Data Breaches: “The trend of at least one breach per day that began in 2016 is expected to continue in 2019.” That’s one of the conclusions from the recent Protenus 2019 Breach Barometer report, published by healthcare compliance analytics company Protenus Inc....
by Gary Pritts | Mar 14, 2019 | Business Associates & Others, General News
Simultaneous HIPAA and GDPR compliance The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a comprehensive privacy regulation governing data on EU residents, went into effect in 2018. US-based organizations serving the healthcare industry, and who handle data of...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 14, 2019 | DD Boards, General News, HIPAA
Ohio Revised Code 3798.10 required the Medicaid director to create standard authorization forms (medical release forms) which are compliant with both the HIPAA requirements in 45 CFR §164.508 and the Substance Use Disorder confidentiality requirements in 42...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 14, 2019 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News, Large Providers, Physician Practices
Check out 2017 & 2018 Eagle MIPS Maximizer Results… MIPS Maximizers: Eagle will maximize your results… by Alex Dighero Our clients typically have 1 of 2 goals when teaming up with Eagle Consulting Partners as their MIPS Maximizers. They want to...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 11, 2019 | CMS Quality Payment Programs, General News, Large Providers, Physician Practices
The MIPS rules are complex and this complexity creates many opportunities to make mistakes. Here are 5 mistakes we have seen and our advice for avoiding them: 1. Filing the Promoting Interoperability (PI) hardship exception without evaluating the impact In 2018, CMS...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 8, 2019 | General News, Large Providers, Physician Practices
Why was my MIPS bonus only 1.88% and not 4%? Many providers who invested time, effort and money in maximizing their MIPS score for 2017 were disappointed to discover that their 2019 claims included a maximum bonus of 1.88% instead of the widely-advertised positive 4%...
by Gary Pritts | Mar 5, 2019 | Business Associates & Others, DD Boards, General News, Large Providers, Physician Practices
Internet Explorer is a “compatibility solution” not a “modern browser”, explains Microsoft’s lead for cybersecurity in a recent blog post. Do you use the Internet Explorer web browser on a regular basis? Does your practice or...
by Gary Pritts | Feb 18, 2019 | Business Associates & Others, DD Boards, General News, HIPAA, Large Providers, Physician Practices
In early 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) cycled through multiple health privacy enforcement heads over a 4-month span. Despite this turnover, OCR tallied $28.7 million from its completed HIPAA enforcement...
by Gary Pritts | Nov 15, 2018 | General News, Physician Practices
The participation requirements of the MIPS program can be difficult to understand. Finding out whether you and/or your practice is required to report for any given year can be a stressful and time-consuming undertaking. The first step to determining MIPS eligibility...
