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

Rivkin Radler LLP on 7/3/2025

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

The Office for Civil Rights Recently Settled Two Ransomware Related Investigations

Baker Donelson on 10/11/2024

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently settled two ransomware cases with covered entities. These cases signal the government's growing concern with health care...more

Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information

Benesch on 4/5/2024

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published an executive summary (Report) outlining key enforcement activities of the Health Insurance Portability and...more

2024 Privacy Law Preview

WilmerHale on 1/17/2024

As we have detailed previously, 2023 was a landmark year for privacy law, featuring numerous developments at the federal, state and international levels, ranging from newly enacted statutes to massive regulatory enforcement...more

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

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 1/4/2024

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

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

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/25/2022

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

When the Feds Find Out! Lack of Data Security Leads to Novel and Hefty Settlements

Polsinelli on 3/22/2022

The Federal Government continues ramping up enforcement of data security requirements by deploying significant new enforcement theories and tools in support of cyber and data security controls required by federal law....more

[Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 10th, Richmond, VA

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/2/2021

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

OCR Investigator: Goal Is to Uncover ‘Root Cause,’ Remedy Harm From Violations

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/7/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 5 (May 2021) - Given the hundreds of thousands of HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) and the two dozen or so enforcement actions the HHS Office for Civil Rights...more

2017 HIPAA Enforcement – Appears Not To Be Slowing Down

Snell & Wilmer on 5/10/2017

To state the obvious, there has been some uncertainty regarding how the Trump Administration will affect federal agency enforcement efforts. However, at least, in regard to HIPAA Privacy and Security, the U.S. Department of...more

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