On August 4, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Health & Human Services Department (“HHS”) announced a $5.55 million HIPAA settlement with Advocate Health Care Network (“Advocate”), the largest...more
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On October 3, 2013 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) published a proposed rule (“PR”) entitled:
Medicare and State Health Care Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Revisions...more
There is a lot of confusion among providers caused by therecent publication of new rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). On January 25, 2013, the HIPAA final omnibus rule...more