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In This Month’s E-News: March 2024

The Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) are among a handful of groups “urging the Biden administration to rescind a policy proposal that would threaten the American...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Continuation of OCR’s Right of Access Initiative with a Nineteenth Settlement

On June 2, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the 19th Resolution Agreement in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of...more

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OCR Settles Nineteenth Investigation in HIPAA Right Of Access Initiative

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On June 2, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that the Diabetes, Endocrinology & Lipidology Center, Inc., (DELC) agreed to pay $5,000, enter into a...more

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Two More OCR HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Settlements Announced With a Massachusetts Behavioral Health Hospital and a New...

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On March 24th and March 26th, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it settled its respective seventeenth and eighteenth enforcement actions as part of...more

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Small NJ Medical Practice Becomes 18th Target Of OCR’s HIPAA Right Of Access Enforcement Initiative

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A small New Jersey plastic surgery practice, Village Plastic Surgery (“VPS”), has become the eighteenth HIPAA covered entity to face an enforcement action under the Office for Civil Right’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative....more

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Sweet 16? Regional Health Care Organization Agrees to Pay $70,000 as Part of OCR’s Most Recent Settlement Relating to Its Right of...

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On February 12th, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it settled its sixteenth enforcement action as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative (the...more

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HIPAA Right of Access Initiative: 2020 Year in Review

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In 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) kept the promise it made the prior year to “vigorously enforce” the rights of patients to access and exercise control over their medical records. OCR has settled ten “right of...more

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Academic Medical Center Agrees to Pay $65,000 in the 12th OCR Settlement as Part of OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

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On November 19, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced it had settled its 12th enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative (the...more

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Five Different Providers in Five Different States Settle With OCR in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

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On September 15, 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had settled five investigations under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative....more

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