HHS has appointed Lisa J. Pino as director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). OCR oversees civil rights enforcements, HIPAA regulations, security, privacy, and breach notification rules.
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Gastroenterology Consultants in Houston, Texas, began notifying over 161,000 patients of a January ransomware attack on August 6. The notification came as a surprise to many patients who were unaware...
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled its twentieth case under the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative, marked by an $80,000 civil monetary penalty paid by Nebraska-based Children’s Hospital...
Following a 2006 HIPAA violation investigation by Indianapolis news station WTHR, CVS and Rite Aid reached settlements with HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and paid a combined $3.25 million in...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced it reached a settlement with West Virginia specialist Diabetes, Endocrinology & Lipidology Center (DELC) for $5,000, to...
Peachstate Health Management, doing business as AEON Clinical Laboratories, has settled with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights for $25,000 and agreed to a...
CHIME and the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness sent letters to the Department of Health and Human Services, in response to proposed changes to HIPAA. Among a range of concerns are...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced it reached a settlement with Village Plastic Surgery (VPS) to resolve potential violations of the HIPAA right of access...
The Department of Health and Human Services announced it reached a $65,000 settlement with Massachusetts-based Arbour Hospital, which resolved potential violations of the HIPAA right of access...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced it has extended the comment period for proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Proposed in December 2020, the changes...
California-based Sharp HealthCare, doing business as Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Centers (SRMC), has agreed to a corrective action plan and to pay the Office for Civil Rights a $70,000 civil monetary...
The Office for Civil Rights reached a $75,000 civil monetary penalty and corrective action plan with Nevada-based Renown Health, to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA right of access...
The Office for Civil Rights announced another enforcement discretion amid the pandemic, lifting penalties for potential HIPAA violations related to the good faith use of online or web-based scheduling...
New York-based Excellus Health Plan, doing business as Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and Univera Healthcare, agreed to a $5.1 million civil monetary penalty and a corrective action plan with the...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has vacated the $4.3 million civil monetary penalty against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center after two years and several lost appeals. The...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights reached a $200,000 civil monetary penalty and a corrective action plan with Banner Health, to resolve potential violations of the...
The Office for Civil Rights recently released guidance for covered entities and business associates on HIPAA-permitted disclosures of protected health information through the use of health information...
Elite Primary Care in Georgia has agreed to a $36,000 settlement with the Office for Civil Rights to resolve a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule's right of access...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights released an audit report on HIPAA compliance in the sector from 2016 to 2017 based on reviews of selected healthcare covered entities...
The Office for Civil Rights urges all healthcare organizations to review a Department of Homeland Security alert, warning of ongoing global supply-chain cyberattacks. Nation-state actors trojanized...
