[Med-privacy] Draft HIPAA Enforcement Rule

[Jeff Williams]

Peter  and all,

  Thanks for sending this along.  Do  you or any one else know what the
current enforcement rule or rules are?  Where are they published?

Peter Marshall wrote:

> *** HHS Publishes Draft HIPAA Enforcement Rule ***
>
> The Department of Health and Human Services today published in the
> Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) of the HIPAA
> Enforcement Rule. Comments from the public are requested, and are due
> by June 17. The proposed rule, entitled, "Civil Money Penalties:
> Policies and Procedures for Investigations, Imposition of Penalties,
> and Hearings," would amend the existing rules relating to the
> investigation of noncompliance to make them apply to all of the HIPAA
> Administrative Simplification rules, rather than exclusively to the
> Privacy standards. It would also amend the existing rules relating to
> the process for imposition of civil money penalties. Among other
> matters, the proposed rules would clarify and elaborate upon the
> investigation process, bases for liability, determination of the
> penalty amount, grounds for waiver, conduct of the hearing, and the
> appeal process.
>
> [....]
>
> Read the full text of the HIPAA Enforcement Rule NPRM:
> http://www.hipaadvisory.com/regs/enforcement/nprm.pdf
>
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