Recent Changes in the Notice of Privacy Practices: What You Need to Know
If there’s one aspect of HIPAA compliance it seems every office implements, it’s the Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) — the document that informs patients of the permitted uses and disclosures of their Protected Health Information (PHI) and also spells out their rights as patients regarding their own access to their PHI. I can vouch for the widespread use of NPPs from my own experience as a healthcare consumer. At every first-time visit to a doctor’s or dentist’s office in recent memory, I’ve been handed a clipboard with a lengthy, legal-sounding NPP to read, along with a pen to sign […]
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