A collection of 31 posts
A detective walks into your emergency department, flashes a badge, and asks for a patient's blood alcohol level. Your nurse looks at the
A hospital in Texas released ten years of a patient's psychiatric records to an employer — all because a front-desk employee accepted an authorization
A hospital compliance officer once told me she spent three months building an elaborate minimum necessary policy — role-based access matrices, tiered authorization levels, the works.
A cardiologist in South Florida receives a $500 payment every time he refers a patient to a specific imaging center. A home health agency gives
A dermatology practice in Massachusetts left a voicemail on a patient's home phone, confirming a diagnosis in front of the patient's
A Filing Cabinet Almost Cost This Clinic $150,000 A few years ago, I consulted with a small orthopedic clinic in the Midwest that had
A radiology group in Tennessee paid $3.5 million to HHS after a single unauthorized disclosure of patient records. The root cause wasn't
A Referral Bonus That Cost a Health System Everything In 2023, a Florida-based lab company agreed to pay $16 million to resolve allegations that it
A hospital employee in Colorado hands a stack of lab results to a man standing at the front desk. He says he's the
In 2018, a medical billing company called Advanced Care Hospitalists paid $500,000 to settle with OCR after a business associate it hired gained access
A hospital administrator once told me she thought there were only three reasons you could share patient data: treatment, payment, and "when the lawyers
The Spreadsheet That Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital settled with OCR for $240,000 after 23 security
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