In December of 2005, four backup tapes and two optical disks containing electronic protected health information (PHI) were stolen from the car of an employee of Providence Health & Services, a
HIPAA Privacy Guidance: Did you know that the Office of Civil Rights recently posted a patients' guide and a provider’s guide to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance requires medium and large employers doing business in San Francisco to “play or pay.” More specifically, those employers must spend a minimum amount o
Primary care physicians in Maryland, as well as in Washington D.C., may be selected by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to receive additional Medicare dollars under a new 5-year
Starting October 1, 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will no longer reimburse hospitals for 11 conditions attributable to avoidable secondary conditions acquired by patients during
The Maryland General Assembly enacted a statute last November that included a provision that requires each corporation doing business in Maryland, which is a member of an affiliated group of
