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In 2023, the Department of Justice recovered over $2.68 billion in settlements and judgments related to healthcare fraud. Behind that staggering number is a
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice in New England for $50,000 after an investigation revealed that no member of the workforce — including
Last year, a mid-size orthopedic practice in the Southeast received a medical records subpoena from an attorney involved in a personal injury lawsuit. The office
In 2023, OCR settled a case with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital for $240,000 after 23 security guards were found snooping through patient medical records
In 2022, OCR settled with a dental practice in North Carolina for $50,000 — not because of a data breach, but because the practice failed
In 2023, OCR settled with a Florida-based dental practice for $30,000 after an investigation revealed the organization had never implemented formal workforce training — despite
When a healthcare clinic in the Midwest received citations from both OSHA and OCR within the same quarter, leadership realized something that too many organizations
In 2023, OCR settled with a dental practice for $350,000 after an investigation revealed the organization had disclosed patient health information PHI to a
In 2023, a mid-sized hospital system paid $1.3 million to settle with OCR after a researcher published a dataset they believed was "anonymized&
In February 2023, OCR settled with Banner Health for $1.25 million after a breach affecting nearly 3 million individuals exposed catastrophic failures in risk
In 2023, OCR settled with a health system that had been using an outdated authorization form for nearly four years — one that failed to include
In February 2024, OCR announced a $4.75 million settlement with a nonprofit health system that failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — leaving the
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