CMS Announces HIPAA 5010 Enforcement Deadline Extension

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday the extension of the HIPAA 5010 deadline - enforcement will begin March 31, 2012 instead of the January 1, 2012. This gives HIPAA covered entities (any healthcare organization that processes, stores or transfers any type of patient health information, PHI) an extra three months to prepare for the full transition to the...