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By now it’s no secret that 2020 completely upended the way healthcare organizations managed compliance programs.

In 2017, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

Did you know that Audit Manager Facility makes it easy for you to conduct audits for any encounter type, inpatient or outpatient, for either coders or providers? It’s true.

Welcome to Part 3 (Part 1, Part 2) of our HIPAA OCR Audit Series where I answer all of your questions taken from our most recent HIPAA webinar, "OCR Audits: What To Expect And How To Prepare."

Welcome back to Part 2 of our HIPAA OCR Audit Series (you can find Part 1 here) where I answer the next twelve questions taken from our most recent HIPAA webinar, "OCR (HIPAA Stage 2) Audits: What to Expect and How to Prepare."

The HIPAA OCR audits are underway. If your organization is targeted for an audit, you’ll only be given 10 days to upload the requested documents and reply to inquiries (there are over 1300 elements).

CMS will be conducting Stage 2 HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits throughout the year, based on their new, recently published protocol.