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Baker Donelson

Insider Threats Are Just as Dangerous as Ransomware – Lessons from the Latest OCR HIPAA Settlement

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What's New? On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an $800,000 settlement with a large Florida-based health care provider over potential violations of the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Podcast: Interoperability: Information Blocking Claims and Enforcement - Diagnosing Health Care

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How have complaints of information blocking been submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), and by whom? What does government enforcement action really look like? In this episode of our special series on...more

Hogan Lovells

HIPAA Penalty Caps to Be Reduced and Tied to Culpability Level

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In a dramatic turn, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that effective immediately, penalties for many HIPAA violations will be subject to substantially reduced limits. ...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Latest HIPAA Compliance & Enforcement Trends

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Enforcement activity by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) showed no signs of slowing throughout 2018 and has already picked up speed in 2019. More recent and significant actions...more

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Historic State AG HIPAA Filing: An Important Case We Are Watching

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In December 2018, twelve state Attorneys General ("AGs") jointly filed suit against Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (“MIE”) claiming it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and its related...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Judge upholds fourth largest HIPAA penalty of $4.3 million for Texas cancer center

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that an administrative law judge has upheld its fourth largest HIPAA penalty against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center....more

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Appeals Board Upholds $4.3 Million in HIPAA Penalties Against Hospital

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The Departmental Appeals Board of the Department of Health and Human Services (“Board”) has granted summary judgment against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (“Center”) and upheld the imposition of $4.3...more

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