On January 14, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a penalty imposed by the U.S. Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) on the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (“MD Anderson”). The Court’s...more
With respect to enforcement, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced two Settlement Agreements to resolve allegations of HIPAA violations between May and October of 2017. Neither...more