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		<title>Office of Civil Rights to Conduct HIPAA Compliance Audits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some employers will soon feel the impact of one of the major provisions of the 2009 economic stimulus package. Specifically, health care providers, health plans and health care clearinghouses will be the targets of new government audits focusing on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security compliance. http://info.swlaw.com/reaction/2011/ALERT_OfficeofCivilRightstoConductHIPAA_Dec2011_HTML/ALERT_OfficeofCivilRightstoConductHIPAA_Dec2011_WEB.HTM]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Health and Human Services Commences HIPAA Pilot Audit Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among other things, 2012 will be the year of the Department of Health and Human Services (&#8220;HHS&#8221;) Office of Civil Rights (&#8220;OCR&#8221;) pilot audit program to assess compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (&#8220;HIPAA&#8221;) Privacy and Security Rules and Breach Notification standards. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in Section [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS Regulations Adopt Standards for HIPAA Electronic Funds Transfers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued interim final regulations addressing standards for electronic funds transfers (EFTs) applicable to health care claims payments transmitted by health plans to health care providers.  http://us.practicallaw.com/6-511-3211]]></description>
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		<title>9 Flexible-Benefit Guidance Challenges to Watch Out for in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Care Legislation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The IRS is hitting the ground running. Just a few days into 2012, we received Notice 2012-09, which addresses reporting health care coverage costs on Forms W-2. Following are a nine more things that Glass says we can expect from the federal government this year. http://smarthr.blogs.thompson.com/2012/01/12/9-flexible-benefit-guidance-challenges-to-watch-out-for-in-2012/]]></description>
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		<title>HIPAA Audits Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health and Human Services plans to audit 150 plan sponsors and employers to make sure employee health and financial records are adequately protected. Creating appropriate policies and procedures, instituting a risk assessment and training employees are keys to compliance, experts say.  http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/story.jsp?storyId=533344206]]></description>
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		<title>New EFT Standards Issued for Health Plans Paying Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mandatory uniform standard for health plans to pay claims electronically was adopted in rules issued Jan. 5 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The rules are designed to help health care providers match payments received with the “remittance advice” transactions that plans are already sending them under an existing HHS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy: 2011 Saw Surge In HIPAA Compliance Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s one of the less pleasant healthcare trends of 2011: information is becoming less secure while enforcement is growing more stringent. According to a recent Ponemon research study, data breaches alone have risen by 32%. Ninety-two percent of all healthcare institutions report they’ve experienced one in the past two years, and each such incident costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Initiatives Will Impact Health Information Management in 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/hipaa/7-initiatives-will-impact-health-information-management-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.myhealthguide.com MyHealthGuide Source: Chris Dimick, American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), 1/4/2012, AHIMA Field Guide CHICAGO &#8212; The healthcare industry has been inundated with change in recent years and health information management (HIM) professionals are being challenged to re-evaluate and prioritize initiatives that will have the most impact on the profession. Seven of the nation&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMS and NCHS Release New 2012 ICD-10-CM</title>
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		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/hipaa/cms-and-nchs-release-new-2012-icd-10-cm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.myhealthguide.com MyHealthGuide Source: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 12/19/2011  www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd.htm www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm#10update www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd10/10cmguidelines2012.pdf Editor&#8217;s Note: The ICD-10-CM is a morbidity classification published by the United States for classifying diagnoses and reason for visits in all health care settings. The ICD-10-CM is based on the ICD-10, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators Defend New Form For Summary of Benefits and Coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/regulators-defend-new-form-for-summary-of-benefits-and-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/regulators-defend-new-form-for-summary-of-benefits-and-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits     December 2011 &#124; Vol. 19, No.3  The recently proposed summary of benefits and coverage (SBC), while still a work in progress, will fill a currently unmet need for a tool enabling plan participants to comparison-shop for coverage, federal regulators told a recent conference. They sought to allay plan sponsors’ [...]]]></description>
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