Posts Tagged ‘HIPAA corrective action’
Failure to Have Business Associates Agreement in Place Proves Costly
A medical group practice based in Lakeland, Fla. must pay $500,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations and adopt a substantial corrective action plan after a data breach that could have affected more than 9,000 patients was discovered. According to the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, between November…
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