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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 30, Number 2. News Briefs: January 2021 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 30, no. 2 (January 18, 2021) - Recovery audit contractors (RACs) may soon be auditing positron emission tomography (PET) for initial treatment strategy in oncologic conditions for compliance...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Company’s Vendor Suffers Breach, No Business Associate Agreement, $500K OCR Settlement

A Florida staffing agency which provides physicians to hospitals and nursing homes, has agreed to a $500,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. The settlement comes...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Lights, camera, HIPAA! HHS announces settlement related to “Boston Med”

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On September 20, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it reached settlements with three hospitals for compromising the privacy of patients’ protected health information (PHI) by...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

University of Mississippi Medical Center settles HIPAA violations for $2.75M

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has obtained another big settlement from a covered entity resulting from a data breach. This most recent settlement of fines and penalties and a Resolution Agreement is with the University of...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Hospital and Vendor Reach Agreement to Settle Alleged HIPAA Violations with Connecticut AG

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Last week, the Connecticut Attorney General (the “Connecticut AG”) announced that Hartford Hospital and its subcontractor, EMC Corporation (“EMC”), agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and...more

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