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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) HIPAA Privacy Rule Investigations

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Providers Face HIPAA Compliance Questions After Change Healthcare Cyberattack

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Who will notify the potentially millions of individuals whose information might have been jeopardized by the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare? Since the affiliate of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) first reported the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Revised Privacy Rule May Not Emerge for Two Years; Info Blocking Penalty Regulation Published

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 7 (July 2023) In two public talks this spring, Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), said completing the 2021 proposed regulation extensively...more

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Hospital Settles HIPAA Investigation Over Allegations of Medical Record Access by Security Guards

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On June 15, 2023, OCR announced a settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Yakima) after completing a HIPAA investigation regarding allegations that hospital security guards accessed medical records of 419 patients....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OCR Investigator: Goal Is to Uncover ‘Root Cause,’ Remedy Harm From Violations

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 5 (May 2021) - Given the hundreds of thousands of HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) and the two dozen or so enforcement actions the HHS Office for Civil Rights...more

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Office for Civil Rights Settles Five Investigations in HIPAA Right of Access Initiative: Don’t Give Your Patients Any Reason to...

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Recent enforcement actions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) underscore the importance of providing patients with copies of their protected health information (PHI) as required by HIPAA. Failure to provide access exposes...more

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