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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

From $5,000 to $800,000: Days Apart, OCR Security Settlements Show Puzzling Math

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A single incident that may have started as a personal vendetta or an extortion threat seven years ago has cost a Florida health care system $800,000, and comes on the heels of an unrelated breach suffered by a different...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

HIPAA: Failure to Report Breach Costs Hospital $2.175 Million

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One health system recently learned the cost of relying too heavily on the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule’s “low probability of compromise” standard when it failed to notify all affected individuals and report the HIPAA breach...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Another HIPAA Settlement for Failure to Enter Into a BAA

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Last week, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had reached a settlement with a contract physician group based in Florida to resolve potential HIPAA violations relating to the sharing of protected health...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Taking Measure of HIPAA Enforcement

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Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the largest settlement to date for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Entity Fined $650,000 in First HIPAA Settlement with a Business Associate

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The possibility of business associates potentially being audited, investigated, and ultimately fined is now a reality. On June 24, 2016, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights...more

Saul Ewing LLP

$750,000 Settlement Agreement Reiterates Importance of HIPAA Security Rule Compliance

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On September 2, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced that it had entered into a Settlement Agreement with an Indiana-based medical practice for alleged violations of the Health Insurance...more

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