In August, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published guidance relating to individuals’ rights to access their protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA. As we covered in our earlier blog post about the August guidance, the new FAQs came amidst OCR’s continued enforcement focus on its Right of Access initiative, under which the OCR has
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OCR Settles Eleven More Cases Under Right of Access Initiative
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in HIPAA and Health Information
Making quite the statement on July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in a press release that it had recently settled an additional 11 cases under its Right to Access Initiative. These settlements bring the total number of enforcement actions under the Initiative to 38.
The settlements, ranging from $3,500 to…
OCR Settles with NY Spine for Failure to Provide Access to Records
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in HIPAA and Health Information
Continuing its enforcement priority of assisting patients with obtaining access to their health records, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently settled its ninth case with a covered entity that it alleged failed to provide proper access of health records to a patient.
NY Spine Medicine, a medical practice providing neurological and pain management series…