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AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Medical Care, but Complicating Medical Claims

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC on 7/29/2025

Artificial intelligence is transforming the world around us, and the healthcare industry is no exception. As a result, health care entities are testing and implementing AI programs in an effort to improve patient care....more

Qlarant, Novitas Audits Escalate as Medicare Skin Substitutes Spending Hits $1.6 Billion, CMS Seeks Evidence of Clinical...

Hendershot Cowart P.C. on 7/18/2025

The wound care industry faces unprecedented scrutiny as Medicare Part B expenditures for skin substitutes exceeded $1.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone. The spending surge has triggered a wave of skin substitute...more

Learn more about privacy violations and secret disclosure under the UAE.

Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal... on 5/20/2025

In today's world, violations of individual privacy and secret disclosure are a serious problem. It may be eavesdropping, interception, recording, and the spreading of personal information without the consent of the other...more

Disclosure of Full Record to Employer Results in $35K Fine, Broad CAP; Echoes of 2017 HIV Case

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/19/2024

It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...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

Quantum Computing’s Transcendence: Impacts on Industry

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/5/2024

In previous articles we addressed quantum computing’s expected impact on the foundational technologies underpinning today’s computing ecosystem. But entire industries stand to be radically transformed by its advent – from...more

Privacy Briefs: October 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/16/2024

23andMe agreed to pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information...more

Client Alert: What You Need to Know About the FTC’s Changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule and How to Comply

Whiteford on 6/14/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule to amend its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBN Rule). The HBN Rule requires certain entities that handle unsecured personally identifiable health data to notify...more

Stricter Than HIPAA: Is Your Substance Abuse Or Mental Health Program In Compliance With 42 CFR Part 2? - UPDATED May 2024

Hendershot Cowart P.C. on 5/20/2024

To protect patients seeking addiction treatment, the federal government passed strict regulations limiting the disclosure of substance abuse patient records. Substance abuse treatment programs must not only comply with the...more

UHG’s Breach Response May Prove Enlightening for Others

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2024

Organizations typically deal with ransomware attacks out of the public eye, but the massive scale of United Healthcare Group’s (UHG) February breach made that an impossibility. UHG CEO Andrew Witty was recently on the hot...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 190: Healthcare Tech and Human Resources with Shannon...

Maynard Nexsen on 5/7/2024

On this episode, Heather and Lauren welcome Shannon Frazier, the Executive Director of Human Resources for Lenovo North America, a Fortune 500 company and the world’s leading PC maker. They discuss how Lenovo’s products...more

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 12/8/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12 (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

New York State Prepares to Regulate Hospital Cybersecurity Programs

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 11/29/2023

On November 13, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to regulate cybersecurity for New York general hospitals regulated under Article 28 of the Public Health Law. As proposed, the regulations will provide an additional...more

FTC Accelerates Enforcement Actions to Protect Consumer Digital Health Information

Burr & Forman on 9/15/2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been aggressively pursuing enforcement actions that involve companies using applications that share consumer personal health information with third parties in violation of the Health...more

Privacy Briefs: July 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 7/17/2023

A former hospital worker in Arizona was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to two felony counts involving identity theft and health information disclosure. In the plea deal,...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/11/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 10 (October, 2022) - Thirty Democratic senators led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., have called on HHS to strengthen federal privacy protections under HIPAA to broadly restrict providers...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/13/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 9 (September, 2022) - More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey from the American Medical...more

Contractors Beware – Cybersecurity Litigation on the Rise Under the False Claims Act

Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,... on 8/5/2022

Takeaway: The DOJ’s Cyber Fraud Initiative and qui tam actions under the False Claims Act represent signification enforcement mechanisms for cybersecurity contractor compliance. On the eve of 2022, the United States began...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 5. Privacy Briefs: May 2022

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/9/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) - A law firm in Evansville, Indiana, is considering pursuing claims involving a physician who spoke with women at a bar and then allegedly looked up their medical records, the...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

NJ Infertility Clinic Reaches $495,000 Data Breach Settlement

Rivkin Radler LLP on 10/20/2021

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office announced on October 12 that Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause, LLC, based in Millburn, NJ, will pay a $495,000 penalty for allegedly violating HIPAA and state law by...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 10. Privacy Briefs: October 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/18/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - A massive data breach at University of New Mexico (UNM) Health may have allowed a third party to obtain medical records from more than 600,000 patients—more than a...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

More Good News On The Immigration Front

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 8/24/2021

We recently commented that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has been making changes that were consistent with the Biden Administration’s plans to make the operation of the immigration system more efficient and...more

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