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New HIPAA Compliance Audit Program - The New Audit Protocol and How It Affects You
Date & Time: Tuesday, July 24, 2012
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration: 90 Minutes
Instructor: Jim Sheldon-Dean
Location: Online
Price : $195.00
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Instructor Profile:
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Jim Sheldon-Dean Director of Compliance Services, Lewis Creek Systems, LLC
In this session we will discuss the HIPAA audit and enforcement processes and how they apply to covered entities and business associates, and the new random HIPAA compliance audit program in particular. We will review the new audit processes and discuss what will be asked in an audit and how. Protocols and the questions asked at recent audits will be explained. We will explain the enforcement regulations and their recent changes that increase fines and create new penalty levels, including n e w penalties for willful neglect of compliance that begin at $10,000. W e will discuss what information and documentation needs to be prepared in advance so that you can be ready for an audit without notice. Sample information request forms and questions asked at prior audits will be presented. The session will also cover how to know if you may become the subject of an audit or enforcement action, and what you can do to help limit your exposure. We will discuss how most enforcement actions come about and what can be done to prevent incidents that lead to enforcement. The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification regulations and how they will be audited will be explained. Documentation requirements for compliance will be explored and a framework of security policies necessary for compliance will be presented.
Why you should attend: The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)has begun, a program to meet requirements in the HITECH Act in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for performing periodic audits of compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. In addition new enforcement is taking place related to the new HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. While in the past, audits had been performed only at entities that had had a compliant filed
against them, the new rule calls for audits whether or not there is a complaint. This means that the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) can show up at your door and ask to perform an audit on short notice, and your organization will need to be ready.
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Fines and penalties for violations of the HIPAA regulations have been significantly increased and now include mandatory fines for willful negligence that begin at $10,000 minimum. HIPAA Audits have been few and far between in the past, but that's now changing - the HHS is now auditing HIPAA covered entities and business associates even if there have been no complaints or problems reported. Find out what the audit process is, what HHS OCR is likely to ask you if you are selected for an audit, and what you'll have to have prepared already when they do.
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Find out what the rules are that you need to comply with and what policies you can adopt that can help you come into compliance. Learn how the HIPAA rules have changed and how you may
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need to change how you work to keep up with them. Learn how having a good compliance process can help you
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Jim Sheldon-Dean is the founder and director of compliance services at Lewis Creek Systems, LLC, a Vermont-based consulting firm founded in 1982, providing information privacy and security regulatory compliance services to health care firms and businesses throughout the Northeast and nationally. Sheldon-Dean’s firm provides a variety of advisory, training, assessment, policy development, project management and mitigation services for a number of health care providers, businesses, universities, small and large hospitals, urban and rural mental health and social service agencies, health insurance plans and health care business associates. He serves on the HIMSS Information Systems Security Workgroup, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange Privacy and Security Workgroup, and co-chairs the WEDI HIPAA Updates sub-workgroup. He is a frequent speaker regarding HIPAA and information privacy and security compliance issues at seminars and conferences, including speaking engagements at AHIMA national conventions and WEDI national conferences, and before the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Health Information Management Associations of New York City, New York State, and Vermont, the Connecticut Hospital Association, and the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania. ...more
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