A collection of 13 posts
A Missing Signature Cost One Hospital $865,000 In 2019, a patient at a mid-size medical center in the Southeast requested her records be sent
You're Searching for a "HIPPA Privacy Form" — Let's Fix That First Every week, thousands of people search for a
A hospital in Texas faxed 277 patient records to the wrong physician's office. No authorization on file. No tracking log. No documentation that
A surgeon's office in Texas faxed a patient's entire psychiatric history to a life insurance company. The patient hadn't
That Clipboard Form Nobody Reads Could Cost You Six Figures Here's a scene I've witnessed dozens of times: a patient walks
A physician's office in Texas left a box of patient records next to a dumpster in 2019. Someone took a photo, posted it
A Missing Checkbox Cost This Hospital $387,000 In 2019, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg agreed to a $85,000 corrective action settlement with OCR after
The Form That Stops Lawsuits — or Starts Them A surgeon's office in Texas faxed a patient's psychiatric records to an employer.
Last month, a medical office manager in Ohio called me in a panic. She'd just been told by a patient's attorney
A Mother Couldn't Get Her Own Son's Medical Records — Then the Feds Got Involved In 2019, a small medical practice in
A psychiatrist's office in Connecticut faxed 65 pages of therapy notes to a patient's employer. The patient had signed a form
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice in New England for $50,000 after a patient filed a complaint that the practice had disclosed
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