HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
I once watched a practice manager spend three hours searching for a "federally recognized HIPAA certification test" — convinced that HHS issued some kind
In 2018, a medical billing company called Advanced Care Hospitalists paid $500,000 to settle with HHS after a business associate they'd hired
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut thought they were HIPAA compliant because they had a privacy notice in the lobby and passwords on their computers.
A front-desk employee at a Florida clinic bills Medicare for physical therapy sessions that never happened. A physician upcodes patient visits — documenting complex evaluations when
A hospital employee in Texas once forwarded a patient's lab results to her personal Gmail account so she could "finish charting at
The Hurricane That Exposed a Hospital's HIPAA Blind Spot In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hospitals across the Gulf Coast scrambled to reunite
A receptionist at a cancer clinic in Florida forwarded a spreadsheet of 1,200 patient names, diagnoses, and Social Security numbers to her personal Gmail
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut thought they had HIPAA covered. They had a privacy notice on their website and a shredder in the back
The Acronym Mix-Up That Can Cost Your Organization Millions Last year, I was leading a workforce training session at a mid-sized hospital system in Ohio
A radiology technician at a hospital in New York forwarded a patient's imaging report to her personal Gmail account so she could "
A cloud storage vendor loses a laptop containing 20,000 patient records. The hospital that hired them gets the breach notification letter. The vendor insists
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a slide deck in front of 200 employees. Nobody corrected her. That moment
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