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Two Regulators, One Waiting Room, Zero Patience for Excuses Last year, a three-physician family practice in Georgia got hit from both sides in the same
In 2018, a small dermatology practice in Massachusetts agreed to pay $150,000 to the Office for Civil Rights after a physician threw patient records
A 22-employee cardiology practice in Tennessee paid $2.3 million to settle HIPAA violations in 2020 — and the root cause wasn't a sophisticated
A pediatric clinic in Idaho had a binder on the shelf labeled "HIPAA Compliance Plan." It was printed in 2017, never updated, and
A nurse at a large hospital system picks up the phone and reads a patient's HIV status to the wrong family member. No
A few years ago, I got a call from the owner of a small billing company in Ohio. She was convinced HIPAA didn't
A $4.3 Million Fine Started with a Training Gap In 2023, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost its final appeal on
A dental hygienist gets a needlestick injury. The office manager logs the incident in the OSHA Sharps Injury Log. Then she emails the details — including
A nurse I worked with in 2019 had been in healthcare for 22 years. She documented patient vitals, coordinated referrals, handled insurance pre-authorizations. One day
A front-desk receptionist at a Florida orthopedic clinic looked up her ex-husband's new girlfriend in the EHR. She didn't download anything.
Sexual harassment of healthcare workers is disturbingly common. Here's what your employer owes you — and why formal training is the absolute minimum.
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.
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