A collection of 39 posts
The Chain of Liability Nobody Wants to Think About In 2018, a medical transcription company called Advanced Medical Practice Management paid a $500,000 settlement
A Receptionist, a Fax Machine, and a $1.5 Million Problem A few years ago, I watched a small physician's practice unravel over
The Filing Cabinet That Cost a Hospital $2.3 Million In 2018, Cottage Health in California settled with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for
The Receptionist Who Cost a Health System $4.3 Million In 2023, OCR settled with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital after discovering that 23 security guards
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call Nobody Expected In 2021, a small community hospital in Mississippi opened a letter from the Office for Civil Rights.
That Form You Downloaded Might Cost You Six Figures Last year, I reviewed a HIPAA authorization form template for a mid-sized specialty clinic in Texas.
A hospital employee in Texas forwards a patient's lab results to her personal Gmail account so she can "finish up charting at
A radiology practice in Tennessee lost a single unencrypted laptop in 2014. That one device — left in a car overnight — exposed the protected health information
It's HIPAA, Not HIPPA — And That Mistake Tells Me Everything I can tell how far along an organization is in its compliance journey
In 2018, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost a Supreme Court appeal and got stuck with a $4.3 million penalty — all
You Searched "HIIPA Compliant" — Here's Why That Matters More Than You Think I see it in emails from clinic managers, in
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call That Most Providers Slept Through In February 2024, Montefiore Medical Center in New York agreed to a $4.75
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