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State AGs Join $202M Settlement Over HIV Drug Kickback

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On July 16, 49 attorneys general (AGs) announced that they joined a $202 million settlement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead). Previously announced by the Department of Justice in April, the settlement resolved allegations...more

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Indianapolis Health System to Pay $345 Million to Settle Stark Law Allegations

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Community Health Network, Inc. (“Community Health”) is a non-profit healthcare system with more than 200 hundred affiliated sites throughout central Indiana. As such, Community Health is one of the larger Midwest...more

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DOJ Settlement Targets Owner and Management Company in Addition to Post-Acute Care Facilities

On November 15, 2023, the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $45.6 million consent judgment (Settlement) with six skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as the owner of the SNFs and its management company which...more

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Attorneys General Bring Multistate Data Breach Settlement Against DNA Testing Lab

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On February 17, 2023, the state attorneys general of Pennsylvania and Ohio reached a settlement with Ohio-based DNA Diagnostics Center (“DDC”) for a 2021 data breach that affected 2.1 million individuals nationwide and...more

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What’s Old Is New Again: OCR Announces $300,000 Settlement Related to Improper Disposal of Physical PHI

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​​​​​​​After a long stretch of breach enforcement actions and settlements arising out of alleged technology gaps, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it settled a case...more

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First HIPAA Right of Access Initiative settlement announced by OCR

Compliance Today (November 2019) - On September 9, 2019, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced its first enforcement action and settlement in its Right of Access...more

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Hospital Fined $85,000 by OCR for Failure to Provide Timely Access to Patient Records

Yesterday, in the first settlement of its kind, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OCR”) announced that Bayfront Health St. Petersburg (“Bayfront”) has paid $85,000 to OCR and...more

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