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OCR Announces $800,000 HIPAA Settlement with Florida Health System

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has announced another settlement for alleged violations of HIPAA. OCR investigated BayCare Health System, which serves central Florida, after a...more

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

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

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HIPAA on the Horizon in the New Year: Important Lessons from an Active 2023 and Regulatory Initiatives to Watch for in 2024

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2023 marked 20 years since the first compliance deadline under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (“HIPAA”) privacy rule. Despite the two decades of experience with HIPAA, compliance continues to remain...more

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News Article Results in $80,000 HIPAA Settlement by New York State Hospital

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On November 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced an $80,000 HIPAA settlement with Saint Joseph’s Medical Center (“SJMC”) in New York State. The...more

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Dramatic Portrayal of Care During Early COVID-19 Costs Hospital $80K; OCR: No Prior Authorization

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12 (December, 2023) Spring 2020 was a terrifying period in the annals of COVID-19, and New York was at the epicenter. COVID-19 cases, and deaths, already the highest in the nation, were...more

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CMS Issues Civil Monetary Penalties for Hospital Price Transparency Non-Compliance

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Last month, CMS issued three civil monetary penalty (CMP) notices for violations of the hospital price transparency regulations (HPT Rule), which requires hospitals to make public the standard charges of the items and...more

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CMS Releases Updates to Hospital Pricing Transparency Rule

On April 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released a fact sheet on Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates (the “Fact Sheet”) under the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the “Rule”)....more

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Arizona Hospital Pays $1.25 Million in HIPAA Settlement After Cyber Attack

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on February 2 that Banner Health, a not-for-profit hospital system based in Arizona, has paid $1.25 million in order to settle alleged...more

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Price Transparency Enforcement is Here – Hospitals Beware

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On June 7, 2022, after months of written warnings, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has levied its first fines nationwide on two affiliated Georgia hospitals for violations of CMS’ Hospital Price...more

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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 28. News Briefs: August 2021

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 28 (August 2, 2021) - CMS has not fined any hospitals yet for noncompliance with price transparency requirements, a spokesperson tells RMC. “In April 2021, CMS began issuing warning...more

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Hospital Price Transparency: CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Increase Penalties for Larger Hospitals Violating Disclosure Requirements

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On July 19, 2021 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as part of proposed rule covering a variety of subjects, including Medicare Hospital Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Center PPS modifications, issued a...more

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Two More OCR HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Settlements Announced With a Massachusetts Behavioral Health Hospital and a New...

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On March 24th and March 26th, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it settled its respective seventeenth and eighteenth enforcement actions as part of...more

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OIG Compliance Program for Hospitals: 8 Keys to Success

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) is tasked with combating fraud under Medicare, Medicaid, and other federally funded healthcare programs. ...more

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D.C. Circuit Upholds Hospital Price Transparency: Regulations Paving Way for January 1, 2021 Effectiveness

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On December 29, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its opinion in American Hospital Association v. Azar (the Opinion) upholding the Hospital Transparency Regulation (the Rule) issued...more

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Hospital Pays $160,000 as OCR Settles Its Eighth HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Investigation

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On October 7, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it had settled its eighth enforcement action as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative...more

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