Office for Civil Rights HIPAA enforcement actions, investigations, and compliance strategies
One Misspelled Word That Tells Me Everything About Your Compliance Program I once walked into a medical office where every break room poster, every employee
A small dermatology practice in Connecticut lost $150,000 in a single afternoon. Not from a lawsuit. Not from a bad investment. From a corrective
A Spreadsheet That Cost $6.85 Million In 2018, Premera Blue Cross agreed to pay $6.85 million to the Office for Civil Rights after
A therapist's office in Connecticut faxed 47 pages of psychotherapy notes to an employer — all because someone handed them a generic HIPAA release
A therapist in a small group practice mentioned a patient's diagnosis during a casual hallway conversation with the front desk staff. No chart
A Single Fax Machine Cost This Hospital $4.8 Million In 2019, a fax sent to the wrong number exposed 498 patients' protected health
A Missing Signature Cost One Hospital $865,000 In 2019, a patient filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights after a hospital released
Let me save you some trouble: the forms you're searching for when you type "hippa forms" are actually called HIPAA forms
A Receptionist's Casual Comment Cost a Hospital $4.3 Million In 2019, the University of Rochester Medical Center agreed to pay $3 million
A $4.3 Million Settlement Started with One Untrained Employee In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost an unencrypted laptop and
The Compliance Officer Who Thought a YouTube Video Was Enough I once consulted for a mid-size home health agency in Florida that had been using
A pediatric clinic in Texas lost a single unencrypted laptop in 2017. That laptop contained the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 3,500 patients
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