Initial 20 Entities Selected for Audit

Throughout the months of November and December 2011, OCR and KPMG notified 20 covered entities that they would be subject to an audit of their HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule and Breach Notification compliance activities.  The notification letter included a request for documents and initial information to establish a date for KPMG team members to meet at the covered entity on-site.  For the initial 20 audits, on-site field work began in January 2012 and was completed in March 2012. As the next wave of audits are conducted, OCR will post additional information.

The following is a list of the types of entities that received notification letters: