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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 $4.3 Million Wake-Up Call That Started With Bad Training In 2023, the University of Washington Medicine paid $750,000 to settle with OCR
A hospital system in the Midwest recently terminated three employees after a post-training assessment revealed they could not correctly identify what constitutes protected health information
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
In February 2024, OCR announced a $4.75 million settlement with Montefiore Medical Center after a former employee stole the protected health information of over
In February 2024, OCR announced a $4.75 million settlement with a nonprofit health system that failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — a failure
In 2023, a dental practice in New England received a six-figure penalty from OCR after posting appointment reminders on a public-facing scheduling platform that exposed
In February 2024, OCR announced a $4.75 million settlement with Montefiore Medical Center after a former employee stole the protected health information of over
In 2023 alone, OCR settled or imposed civil money penalties in cases totaling over $4 million — and the majority involved failures that any organization with
In February 2024, OCR announced a $4.75 million settlement with a hospital system that failed to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis — a requirement that
When OCR issues a corrective action plan or levies a six-figure penalty, the enforcement letter doesn't reference some obscure regulation — it cites the
In 2023, OCR settled with a healthcare system for $1.3 million after an investigation revealed that a single misconfigured server — one that the IT
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