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Last year, a medical office manager in Ohio told me she'd purchased a bundled "HIPAA and OSHA certification online" package for
A midsize hospital in Oklahoma thought they had it covered. Policies were printed. The IT team had installed encryption software. A training session happened once
A pharmaceutical rep takes a physician out to a $400 dinner. A device manufacturer flies a surgeon to a weekend "training" at a
A pharmaceutical company wires $47,000 to a cardiologist for consulting fees. A device manufacturer flies a surgeon to a resort conference and picks up
Not Everything Is a Violation — But Most People Don't Know Where the Line Is A nurse at a mid-size hospital once told me
A woman in California walked into her new dermatologist's office and discovered something unsettling. Her previous provider — a physician she'd left
A banner health system in Arizona lost track of 3.7 million patient records in a single breach. The result: a $1.25 million settlement
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
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