The Downside to HIPAA Compliance at this Practice

Understanding HIPAA's Privacy Rule clarifies how incidental disclosures in health care settings are permissible, ensuring patient privacy while facilitating essential communications.

Ericka Adler, J.D., a health care attorney with Roetzel & Andress, joins the show to explore the legal risks of prescribing GLP-1 medications.

Practice administrators seeking federal grants or contracts must look beyond HIPAA, completing SAM registration and adopting FAR 52.204‑21’s 15 essential cybersecurity controls to safeguard PHI, PII, FCI and CUI.

Jeffrey A. Singer, M.D., a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, joins the show to talk patient autonomy in health care.

Two class-action lawsuits targeting the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Kansas Health System for years-long cyberstalking and unauthorized access to protected health information spotlight massive HIPAA risk-analysis failures and underscore the urgent need for stronger health care cybersecurity safeguards.

Remote patient monitoring is rapidly expanding, but with heightened federal scrutiny and OIG audits underway, medical practices must ensure full compliance to protect revenue and reduce audit risk.