Posts Tagged ‘OCR investigation’
If You’re Not Complying with Medical Record Requests, it Will Cost You
It was a little more than a year ago that we first wrote about how the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had begun to vigorously enforce HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right of access. It requires providers to give patients access to their health records upon request and…
Read MoreHIPAA Violation Results in $4.3M Fine for Cancer Center
If you haven’t taken stringent measures to protect patient privacy, this recent ruling from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge might spur you into action. The ALJ ruled that University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center violated HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and granted summary judgment to the Office for…
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