On July 11, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it had reached a $1.7 million dollar resolution agreement with insurer WellPoint Inc., following a security breach that left the personal...more
On July 8, 2013, WellPoint, Inc., a managed care company (“WellPoint”), agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine to settle a self-reported breach of HIPAA, a key federal health privacy law, that led to the unauthorized disclosure of...more
On July 8, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) entered into a $1.7 million resolution agreement with WellPoint over a 2009-2010 security breach....more