Modern Healthcare Magazine

I was quoted in the May 7, 2009 edition of Modern Healthcare online regarding the delay in enforcement of the FTC's Red Flags Rule. I note that physicians should have much of the compliance effort in place based upon HIPAA and other requirements. However, the FTC has indicated that their target will be accounts and not medical records, so physicians and other providers should take a hard look at their billing departments for further compliance efforts:

“I think for the most part healthcare providers would have a lot of this already in place with medical records in complying with HIPAA and state law,” said Jud DeLoss, a principal at the law firm Gray Plant Mooty in Minneapolis. “Medical records aren’t the target here, it’s the billing,” DeLoss added. “That’s not entirely new for more sophisticated systems, but it’s certainly a new area, for a concentrated area, to prevent the loss or misuse of patient information.”