Expert guidance on HIPAA training, compliance best practices, and healthcare workforce management.
Every week, thousands of people type "hippa class" into Google. I know because I've watched the search data for years. Here&
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May 9, 2026
A Single Spreadsheet Cost This Health Plan $6.85 Million In 2023, Premera Blue Cross agreed to a $6.85 million settlement with HHS after
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May 8, 2026
A dermatology practice in New England paid a vendor $4,000 for a "comprehensive HIPAA risk assessment." What they got back was a
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May 8, 2026
The Referral Fee That Cost a Hospital System $260 Million In 2023, a Tennessee-based hospital operator agreed to pay $260 million to resolve allegations that
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May 8, 2026
A hospital in Texas fired a records clerk in 2023 after she accessed the medical files of 14 patients she had no clinical reason to
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May 7, 2026
A single missing risk assessment cost Premera Blue Cross $6.85 million in 2020. Not a breach of millions of records — though that happened too.
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May 7, 2026
The Enforcement Hammer Dropped — and Telehealth Was in the Crosshairs In March 2023, HHS OCR announced that the telehealth enforcement discretion period — the pandemic-era flexibility
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May 6, 2026
Last month, a clinic administrator told me she'd hired a new medical assistant who was "HIPAA certified." She said it with
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May 6, 2026
Last year, a two-dentist practice in the Midwest got hit with a corrective action plan from OCR — not because of a massive data breach, but
Carl B. Johnson
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May 5, 2026
A $4.7 Billion Problem Hiding in Your Organization's Blind Spots In 2023, the Department of Justice recovered over $2.68 billion in
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May 5, 2026
A receptionist at a New York medical practice forwarded a patient's lab results to her personal Gmail account so she could "finish
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May 5, 2026
A gym owner in Texas once told me, straight-faced, that his business was HIPAA exempt because he wasn't a doctor. He collected health
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May 4, 2026
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