HIPAA regulations, compliance requirements, and violation prevention
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call That Started With One Unencrypted Laptop In 2014, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University paid a combined $4.8
A receptionist at a busy cardiology practice in Texas forwarded a patient's insurance form to her personal Gmail account. She wasn't
A Question That Gets People Fired Last year, I consulted with a medical billing company whose CEO genuinely believed HIPAA didn't apply to
A $4.75 Million Wake-Up Call from an Agency You've Probably Underestimated In 2024, the Office for Civil Rights slapped a $4.75
A Fax Machine, a $4.75 Million Penalty, and Why HIPAA Still Catches Organizations Off Guard In 2020, a large health system called Premera Blue
A $5.1 Million Mistake Started with One Wrong Assumption In 2017, Memorial Healthcare System paid $5.1 million to settle with the Office for
Most People Spell It Wrong — And That's Just the Start I once sat in a boardroom where a hospital CEO had "HIPPA
A hospital in Oklahoma City paid $1.19 million to HHS in 2023 because an employee snooped through patient records without authorization. The organization knew
A $4.75 Million Invoice Nobody Expected In 2022, a cancer care center in Indiana opened an envelope from HHS that changed everything. The Centers
Last year, a three-physician practice in Tennessee paid $1.19 million to settle HIPAA violations that started with a single stolen laptop. The Office for
A psychiatrist's office in Connecticut faxed 65 pages of therapy notes to a patient's employer. The patient had signed a form
A community hospital in Yakima, Washington lost an unencrypted laptop in 2013. That single device held the electronic protected health information of 524 patients. The
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