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DOJ Announces Largest-Ever National Healthcare Fraud Takedown and Launches New Data Fusion Center

Husch Blackwell LLP on 8/8/2025

In June 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, marking the largest coordinated healthcare fraud enforcement action in DOJ history. The sweep included charges against a...more

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 7, July 2025

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 7/10/2025

Welcome to our seventh issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the so called “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” and its impacts on Medicaid and healthcare, the...more

Privacy Briefs: November 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/14/2024

Change Healthcare Inc. has amended its initial breach report to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to state that 100 million individuals were impacted by its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. However, as of Oct. 24,...more

HHS and FBI Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory Statement for Healthcare Providers

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan on 7/18/2024

Shortly after our prior blog post discussing the need for healthcare entities to shore up protections against phishing attacks, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...more

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/6/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

FDA Authorized to Establish New Cybersecurity Standards for Medical Devices: What it Means for Industry

Ankura on 4/26/2023

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed a new statute that will significantly impact medical device cybersecurity regulation. Section 3305 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (“Section 3305”) authorizes the...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/16/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

FBI Sounds Alarm on Cyber Attacks Against Healthcare Payment Processors

King & Spalding on 9/26/2022

On September 14, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a Private Industry Notification (Notification) warning the industry regarding increasing cyber-attack activity against healthcare providers and payment...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 6/13/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 6 (June, 2022) - A report from the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) found that in early 2022, ransomware groups increasingly turned to legitimate software during...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2022 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/21/2022

CYBERSECURITY - ECRI Names Cybersecurity Attacks as Top Health Technology Hazard for 2022 - ECRI has been publishing its annual report of health technology hazards for the past 15 years. According to ECRI’s Device...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 12. Privacy Briefs: December 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/13/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 12 (December, 2021) - Huntington Hospital in New York has sent notices to approximately 13,000 patients about an incident that happened in late 2018 and early 2019 involving a night shift...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/15/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

A Guide to Practical, Regulatory, and Reputational Risk Management

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/3/2021

Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations - Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 4. Privacy Briefs: April 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/13/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 4 (April 2021) - A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of...more

Warnings of Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare Sector and Potential Sanctions for Making Ransomware Payments

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 11/11/2020

CISA, FBI, & HHS Warn of Ransomware Activity Targeting the Healthcare Sector - On October 28, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of...more

US Government Warns Healthcare Sector of Targeted Ransomware: Outlines Best Practices and Provides Technical Details of Attack

White & Case LLP on 11/9/2020

On October 28, 2020, a coalition of US government entities consisting of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services...more

Hospitals Facing New Ransomware Challenges

King & Spalding on 11/9/2020

Ransomware has risen to “worst nightmare” status for many organizations, particularly in the healthcare industry. While it has been lurking for many years, recently ransomware has emerged as one of the most virulent...more

Health Care Facilities Are Under Cyberattack; Cyber Insurance Provides A Valuable Defense

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on 11/5/2020

U.S. hospitals, already on the front lines of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, are now facing viral attacks by cybercriminals. More than 20 U.S. hospitals and health care organizations have reported their data being held...more

Emerging Cyber-Security Threats for 2020: The Rise of Disruptionware and High-Impact Ransomware Attacks

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/27/2020

Disruptionware is defined by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) as a new and “emerging category of malware designed to suspend operations within a victim organization through the compromise of the...more

British Member of “The Dark Overlord” Hacking Organization Extradited to Face Conspiracy and Identify Theft Charges in the United...

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 12/20/2019

Beginning in 2016, the computer hacking organization known as “The Dark Overlord,” began to target victims in the St. Louis, Missouri area, including various health care providers, several accounting firms, and a medical...more

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