The Congressional Budget Office released updated health care cost projections yesterday. Modern Healthcare reports that CBO projects that Medicare's costs will double over the next decade and that Medicaid's costs will grow at an even faster rate.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee agreed to pay the federal government a $1.5 million penalty under the HITECH because 57 unsecured hard drives including protected health information were stolen from one of its facilities. According to the HHS press release, "OCR’s investigation indicated BCBST failed to implement appropriate administrative safeguards to adequately protect information remaining at the leased facility by not performing the required security evaluation in response to operational changes. In addition, the investigation showed a failure to implement appropriate physical safeguards by not having adequate facility access controls; both of these safeguards are required by the HIPAA Security Rule." A word is to wise ....
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