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Physician Hospitalist Group Settles with OCR and Enters Into a Resolution Agreement for Failure to Have HIPAA Policies and Business Associate Agreement in Place

On Dec. 5, 2018, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) had entered into a $500,000 settlement and resolution agreement (RA) resulting from OCR’s investigation of ACH’s breach notification on April 11, 2014, and subsequent supplemental notification. On … Continue Reading

HIPAA Bombshells — Major Civil Monetary Penalties Imposed Against Covered Entities for Privacy Violations

By John Mulhollan on March 2, 2011 Posted in Enforcement, HIPAA/HITECH, Medical Privacy

The last week of February 2011 will likely be remembered as a noteworthy milestone in the history of HIPAA privacy enforcement by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”). Showing that HHS intends to vigorously exercise the expanded civil monetary penalty enforcement provisions enacted in 2009 under the Health Information Technology for Economic and … Continue Reading