Questions often arise as to what terms need to be and should be included in a business associate agreement. The distinction between “need” and “should” is very important. The regulations implementing ...

Signing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is standard practice for most healthcare providers and businesses, but these parties sometimes do not read the agreement or even execute it as stated. BAAs ...

One of the fundamental compliance requirements for healthcare providers is protecting the confidentiality and security of the patient health information you maintain. Most healthcare providers are ...

Contracts, by their definition, aim to govern the rights of parties whose rights are not otherwise governed. They allow the parties to negotiate the exchange and reduce to an agreement what each party ...

Why it matters: HIPAA applies to dental practices handling electronic patient data, making compliance essential to avoid fines and protect patient trust. Key compliance steps: Use strong encryption, ...

HIPAA enforcement is tightening, with OCR ramping up audits and investigations that focus heavily on ransomware preparedness, risk analysis, and business associate oversight. Covered entities and ...

We have recently assisted several healthcare provider clients that have discovered that their business associates had allowed protected health information of the provider’s patients to be improperly ...

In August, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to pay a $5.55 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple HIPAA violations. In ...

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WHEREAS, Business Associate now and in the future may have relationships with Covered Entity in which Business Associate creates, receives, maintains or transmits Protected Health Information (as ...