A collection of 130 posts
A $4.3 Billion Problem Hiding in Plain Sight In 2023, the Department of Justice recovered over $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments related
A physician in South Florida billed Medicare for over $100 million in home health services that were never provided. Patients who were perfectly healthy showed
A home health aide in Georgia texts a photo of a patient's wound to a family member — using her personal phone, over an
A Receptionist, a Sticky Note, and a $1.5 Million Fine A front-desk employee at a medical clinic wrote down a patient's Social
The Spreadsheet That Cost a Hospital $4.3 Million In 2019, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost a final appeal and faced
In February 2023, Banner Health agreed to pay $1.25 million to the Office for Civil Rights after a hacking incident exposed the electronic protected
A front-desk employee at a small cardiology practice in Texas emailed a spreadsheet of patient names, diagnoses, and Social Security numbers to her personal Gmail
A hospital employee in Texas once posted a photo of a whiteboard in a break room. In the background, barely legible, was a patient'
A hospital receptionist in Texas called a patient's employer to confirm an upcoming surgery date. She thought she was being helpful. That single
A medical billing company in Tennessee assumed the HIPAA Security Rule didn't apply to them. They weren't a hospital. They weren&
A dermatology practice in Massachusetts thought they were HIPAA compliant. They had a privacy policy on their website, a shredder in the back office, and
Most People Get the Spelling Wrong — and the Law Even More Wrong I once watched a hospital administrator type "HIPPA" into a compliance
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