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A $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call in a Hospital Basement In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted USB drive
In February 2011, Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Maryland received a $4.3 million penalty from the Office for Civil Rights — the
A $50 Phone Call That Cost a Hospital Everything A front desk coordinator at a mid-size hospital in the Midwest picked up the phone. The
The Part of HIPAA Nobody Talks About — Until It Costs Them In 2016, Advocate Health Care Network agreed to a $5.55 million settlement with
A billing company in Tennessee lost $2.3 million because its leadership believed HIPAA was a hospital problem, not theirs. CHSPSC LLC, a management company
A $4.3 Million Penalty Started With One Untrained Employee In 2019, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its appeal of a
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a staff memo — and nobody caught it for three weeks. It's
The Statement That Trips Up Even Experienced Compliance Officers Here's a question I've watched rooms full of healthcare professionals get wrong:
A $4.75 Million Fine Started with a Single Stolen Laptop In 2014, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center paid a combined $4.
A receptionist at a small cardiology practice in Arizona looked up her ex-husband's medical records one afternoon. She didn't share them.
A personal trainer once told me she couldn't share a client's weight-loss results on Instagram because of HIPAA. A landlord told
Last month, a practice manager in Phoenix emailed me a certificate she'd earned from an online course. It had a gold seal, an
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