Nearly all health care covered entities can be subject to an audit. To be prepared, hospitals need to know what kinds of questions they’ll be asked, what information they’ll need to provide and how to prevent issues that could lead to violations and fines.

In this session, Jim Sheldon-Dean will discuss the HIPAA audit program and how it works, and discuss the areas that caused the most issues in the 2012 audits and the areas that were targeted in the 2016 audits. He will explore what kind of issues were most prevalent and what kind of entities had the most problems, and show where entities need to improve their compliance the most. Jim will also explore the typical risk issues that lead to breaches of health information and see how those issues may be targets for auditors in the future.