Monthly Archives: August 2013

HIPAA Resource Guide 2013

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Beginning March 26, 2013 there have been changes to HIPAA that effect your office. Please click here: HIPAA Resources 2013, to view and download a guide to important HIPAA deadline dates, a list of online HIPAA resources, and important HIPAA definitions.

A “HIPAA GUIDE” is being developed for AMIC policy holders and will be available on the AMIC website in the near future. On this site you will see forms and notice of changes under the Omnibus Rule. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact AMIC Risk Management at 501-716-9190 or e-mail rebecca.tutton@arkansasmutual.com

Click below for the top 5 HIPAA violations per year, and for a link showing where and how a HIPAA breach of 500+ occurred.

Top 5 & Public Breaches

 

 

Mutual Interest Summer 2013: Arkansas Mutual’s Game Plan…Take Care Of Our Own

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A message from your CEO, Corey Little

WHEN I FIRST STARTED meeting with Arkansas physicians and insurance experts about the formation of an Arkansas medical malpractice insurance company, Houston Nutt and Stan Heath were Razorback coaches. It was 2007 and Razorback fans were not happy. Neither were the Arkansas doctors that I visited with. These doctors were irritated by being abandoned by St. Paul and unhappy with St. Paul’s decision to leave the med-mal market. They realized that as long as they were with an out-of-state company they would not be able to control such events. Just like with the Hogs,
it was time for a change.

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