Healthcare privacy breaches represent one of the most consequential risks facing ABA organizations today. With nearly 95% of HIPAA violations considered preventable, the burden falls squarely on organizational leadership and frontline practitioners to implement robust safeguards.
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Join Free →Almost 95% of HIPAA breaches are preventable. In fact, most healthcare privacy incidents can be avoided by combining robust training, effective organizational policies and procedures, and periodic risk assessments. Compliagent's HIPAA training is designed to address your organization's HIPAA vulnerabilities by teaching your staff members exactly what they need to know to be HIPAA compliant, using current industry best practices.
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| BACB® | 0 | — |
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Nick Merkin is the Chief Executive Officer of Compliagent, a national healthcare compliance consulting firm based in Los Angeles. As part of his consulting practice, he frequently serves as a fractional or interim Chief Compliance Officer for organizations experiencing rapid growth, enforcement challenges, or in the process of merger and acquisition.Nick has a thorough knowledge of complex and rapidly changing state and federal laws and policies regarding organizational governance issues, board oversight and liability, compliance auditing, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA privacy, data security, and the False Claims Act.Nick also has particular expertise in the areas of alternate payment methodologies and innovative provider structures for networks within the healthcare industry.Nick earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. Nick was also awarded an M.B.A. from Tel Aviv University's Recanati School of Business and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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