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Risk Assessment Enforcement Actions Business Associates

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

2025 Enforcement Trends: Risk Analysis Failures at the Center of HHS’s Multimillion-Dollar HIPAA Penalties

In the first five months of 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it had entered into ten Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) resolution...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: The Government Enters into Largest HIPAA Settlement to Date; What HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates...

Advocate Health Care Network, which operates 12 hospitals and more than 200 other treatment centers in Chicago and central Illinois, has agreed to the largest settlement to date with the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) for...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Don’t Wait for It; Recent HIPAA Enforcement Action Signal More to Come in Phase 2 Audits

Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR) have recently selected a vendor to conduct the second wave of HIPAA audits. These so-called “Phase 2 Audits” are set to commence...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Pressure Points: OCR Enforcement Activity in 2014

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During 2014, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services initiated six enforcement actions in response to security breaches reported by entities covered by the Health Insurance...more

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