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Hold Off on Changes Over Medical Privacy Rule.
Physicians should go slow on the decision to purchase a compliance program or hire a consultant to help them wade through the recently implemented medical privacy rule.
They have 2 years to come into compliance with the rule, which will be enforced beginning on April 14, 2003. Questions remain about how or if the rule will be changed before then, and it is premature to spend a lot of money trying to comply with a rule that is subject to change, said Robert Doherty, senior vice president of governmental affairs and public policy at the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson got mixed reviews when he announced in April that the administration will go ahead with the rule, which is part of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act. The rule had been on hold for about 2 months while the administration collected comments from the public. All in all, HHS received more than 24,000 written comments on the issue.
At the time of Secretary Thompson's announcement, it was unclear which way the administration would go with the privacy rule--consumer advocates were calling for its rapid implementation, and many health care industry groups were lobbying for sweeping changes to the rule, or to kill it altogether. The American Hospital Association said in a statement that it was profoundly disappointed with the rule, and described it as a "bureaucratic nightmare.
In the end, the secretary opted to go ahead, but with a promise that the administration would continue to analyze the rule and make changes where necessary. Several factors may have contributed to the decision to proceed: criticism from consumer groups, the delay and administrative hassle that would result from pulling the rule entirely, and reluctance to go through the process all over again. It is also ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Hold Off on Changes Over Medical Privacy Rule.