The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced that it had entered into a Resolution Agreement, Corrective Action Plan, and settlement with Lifetime Healthcare, Inc., the parent of Excellus Health Plan, over alleged violations of HIPAA relating to a data breach that occurred from December 23, 2013 through
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Size Doesn’t Matter for OCR Enforcement Actions
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Small health care organizations may think they are under the radar of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), but a settlement the OCR agreed to last week should disabuse small health care providers of that notion.
On July 23, 2020, the OCR issued a press release outlining the terms of its settlement with Metropolitan Community…
For First Time Ever, Government Brings HIPAA Enforcement Action Alleging Violations of Right to Access Medical Records
By Conor Duffy on
On September 9, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had settled its first ever HIPAA enforcement action arising from alleged violations of the individual right to access health information under HIPAA. OCR entered into a settlement with Bayfront Health St. Petersburg (Bayfront) in response…