BakerHostetler is closely monitoring imminent cybersecurity threats to healthcare revenue cycle management personnel and vendors.
Most recently, Change Healthcare (CHC), a healthcare technology and business management...more
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Last week, the attorneys general (AGs) of 43 states and the District of Columbia announced they reached a $1.5 million settlement with Neiman Marcus Group LLC to resolve an investigation of a 2013 data breach that involved...more
With the announcement last week of its new lawsuit against several tech companies for violating Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), the FTC Act, and New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act (“UPA”), the State of New...more
Despite several failed attempts in recent years, there is a new effort underway to enact a federal data privacy law, and it’s being led by a somewhat unlikely source – the tech industry....more
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One of two remaining states without a data breach notification law has finally enacted one of its own. On March 21, 2018, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed South Dakota Senate Bill 62 into law, creating the newest...more