CMS Acceptable Risk Safeguards (ARS)
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About the ARS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Information Security and Privacy Acceptable Risk Safeguards (ARS) provides the standard to CMS and its contractors as to the minimum acceptable level of required security and privacy controls.
CMS Breach Response Handbook
Introduction
This handbook defines actions that must be taken in response to a suspected breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) / Protected Health Information (PHI) / Federal Tax Information (FTI) at the CMS to meet federal requirements for breach response. The handbook includes roles and responsibilities, breach response deliverables and lines of communication, triggers for federal reporting requirements, and resources from HHS and other authorities.