Posts Tagged ‘HIPAA privacy’
Clinical Lab Settles HIPAA Violation Case
A Georgia-based clinical laboratory recently agreed to pay $25,000 to The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. That rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information (PHI) that…
Read MoreOCR Cracking Down on Providers Who Violate HIPAA’s Right of Access Requirement
HHS Makes Changes to HIPAA Civil Monetary Penalty Caps
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a notification that it is changing the way it applies the assessment of Civil Money Penalties (CMPs) against those who violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECHâ€)…
Read MoreHIPAA Enforcement tops $28M in 2018
If it seems as if HIPAA violations were in the news more often than ever last year, that may be because 2018 saw an all-time record year in HIPAA enforcement activity. There were 10 cases settled and one judgement secured by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Read MoreWhat You Should Know About OCR's HIPAA Privacy Audits
Have you received a request from HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) asking that you provide the name of your privacy official along with any additional criteria? If you have, then you likely are aware that you may be the focus of a HIPAA privacy audit. This is part of the Phase 2 HIPAA Audit…
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