Office for Civil Rights HIPAA enforcement actions, investigations, and compliance strategies
A Law That Started with Paperwork — and Ended Up Changing Everything In 1996, a hospital billing department might send the same claim to three different
A medical billing company in Tennessee assumed the HIPAA Security Rule didn't apply to them. They weren't a hospital. They weren&
A dermatology practice in Massachusetts thought they were HIPAA compliant. They had a privacy policy on their website, a shredder in the back office, and
A hospital employee in Texas forwarded a patient's appointment confirmation to a personal email so she could "follow up from home."
You typed "meaning of HIPPA" into Google. I know because thousands of people do it every single week. Here's the thing
A Single Stolen Laptop Started a $4.3 Million Nightmare In 2014, a workforce member at MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted laptop containing
A hospital employee in Texas looked up her ex-husband's medical records on a slow Tuesday afternoon. No clinical reason. No authorization. Just curiosity.
A woman in California walked into her pharmacy and discovered that an employee had accessed her prescription records — not to fill a prescription, but out
A Single Stolen Laptop Started It All In 2013, Advocate Medical Group in Illinois lost four million patient records because of unencrypted laptops. The settlement?
In January 2021, something shifted in HIPAA enforcement that most compliance officers still haven't fully absorbed. Congress passed the HITECH Amendment — Public Law
The Phone Call That Cost a Hospital $865,000 A hospital employee picked up the phone, confirmed a patient's full diagnosis to an
A $4.3 Million Penalty — Because They Didn't Think They Were a CE In 2014, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University collectively
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