Earlier today, I posted about the need for physicians to make sure that their medical practices were in compliance with HIPAA’s requirement to have a written business associate agreement with any vendor with whom the practice shares a patient’s protected health information. A medical provider in Illinois had to pay $31,000 in a resolution payment to HHS due to the failure to have a business associate agreement with a vendor that stored inactive paper records of the practice’s patients. Dentists, take note! You are, of course, subject to HIPAA, too. If you don’t have all required business associate agreements in place, then get them in place now.
