Physicians Practice August 12, 2021
With cybersecurity and criminal government actions involving protected health information (PHI), now is a good time to understand the importance of the required Business Associate Agreement (BAA).
Before delving into the nuances of the requisite BAA, it’s important to highlight the following three items:
- Two of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) False Claims Act enforcement priorities are cybersecurity and electronic health records;
- The Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office recently announced that another individual out of a group of co-conspirators was sentenced in July 2021 for the “theft of protected health information, the fabrication of physicians’ orders, and the sale of prescriptions will not be tolerated in the Eastern District of Texas”;
- A former Scripps Health employee,...
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