11 HIPAA Right of Access Violations Brings $646,000 in Fines

Demonstrating their continued focus on right of access violations, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced 11 settlements and one HIPAA fine for medical practices across a wide variety of specialties. An examination of the specifics of each incident cites several reasons by the covered entities for not providing the requested records, including: Complete failure to [...]

2022-07-18T15:05:19-04:00July 18th, 2022|

Will New Laws Allow Patients to Cash-In on HIPAA Fines?

This coming November, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is slated to discuss an “advance notice of proposed rulemaking” that is requesting for public input on how OCR could share HIPAA fines with the victims of security breaches. This is not the first time OCR has called this action, as this is the 13th time since fall of 2012 that they [...]

2019-11-12T16:50:03-05:00June 20th, 2018|