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DOJ Health Care Fraud Takedown and FCA Working Group Signal New Era of Enforcement and Compliance Risks

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On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly announced the next phase of the Administration’s “Whole-of-Government” approach to fighting health care...more

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All Good Things Must Come to an End: The Expiration of OCR’s Enforcement Discretion

On April 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed that four notifications of enforcement discretion regarding enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 7. News Briefs: February 2021 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 7 (February 22, 2021) - A Michigan woman is the first in the nation to be charged criminally with misappropriating money from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF), the Department of Justice...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

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COVID-19: HHS Permits Business Associates to Use and Disclose PHI for Public Health and Health Oversight Purposes Without Amending...

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on April 2 that HHS is exercising its enforcement discretion to permit business associates to use and disclose protected health information (PHI) for public health...more

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New HIPAA Waivers for Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Emergency

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This post provides an update on a number of HIPAA waivers that have just been made available to health care providers: (1) Waivers for hospitals in the initial 72 hours of enacting a disaster protocol; and (2) Waivers for all...more

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