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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Missing COI Program, Fabricated Outreach, Job, Health Records: The Many Types of Falsehoods

Report on Research Compliance 21, no. 9 (September, 2024) - How many types of falsehoods might sully applications for research funds and the studies they support? Unfortunately, the most recent semiannual report to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

News Briefs: January 8, 2024

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Hospital Inc. in Tampa, Florida, has agreed to pay $19.564 million to settle false claims allegations over claims submitted to federal health care programs for items and...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OCR Announces 46th Right of Access Settlement

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently announced its 46th settlement under its Right of Access Initiative since it was initially launched in 2019. Allegations in the recent...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

OCR: UHC Admitted Worker ‘Error’ Left Records Request Languishing in the Mail, Pays $80,000

Start with a records request. Add a seven months’ wait. Stir in the chaos of the pandemic, with most employees working from home. Blend in a perhaps-neglected post office box. Bake for two-and-a-half years....more

Chartwell Law

The Chartwell Chronicles: Occupational Exposure Claims

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In Episode 3 of The Chartwell Chronicles, hosts Colin Davis and Brittany Atkinson discuss Occupational Exposure Claims. Topics of discussion include the different types of occupational claims, how Judges decide Motions, who...more

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With Recent Settlements, HHS OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Continues To Be a Focus of Enforcement

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OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative shows no signs of slowing down. On July 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the resolution of 11 more cases at a total of...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Eleventh Circuit: Disagreement Over Valuation Is Not Per Se Bad Faith

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A little more than one year after Progressive scored a bad faith win in Eres v. Progressive American Ins. Co., 998 F.3d 1273 (11th Cir. 2021), Progressive came away with another victory in Deary v. Progressive American Ins....more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Latest HIPAA Enforcement Actions

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has released information on its latest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement actions. The government continues to pursue investigations and administrative...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Nebraska Children’s Hospital Agreed to Pay $80,000 in OCR’s Twentieth HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

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On September 10, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the twentieth settlement of an enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative...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

Saul Ewing LLP

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

OCR Settles Two More Right of Access Cases

Continuing its serious march against covered entities not allowing patients access to their records, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has settled two more cases in two days in its Right of Access Initiative. This brings the...more

Saul Ewing LLP

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

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OCR Shows No Sign of Slowing Down Enforcement Actions Under the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently settled two additional enforcement actions as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative, which is a program implemented by...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

Saul Ewing LLP

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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Large Health System Agrees To Pay $200,000 as Part of OCR’s Fourteenth Right of Access Initiative Settlement

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In its first enforcement action of 2021, on January 12th, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it settled with Banner Health its fourteenth enforcement...more

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(Un)Lucky Thirteenth HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Investigation Results in Primary Care Provider Paying $36,000 to OCR

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On December 22, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a settlement of a thirteenth enforcement action under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative (the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

New Enforcement Threat: 'Coordinated' AGs Pursuing Settlements Following Big Breaches

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 12 (December 10, 2020) - In late September, Anthem Inc. entered into a $39.5 million settlement for a 2014 data breach that affected nearly 79 million individuals. About a week later,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 42. News Briefs: November 2020 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 42 (November 23, 2020) - CMS said Nov. 16 that the Medicare fee-for-service improper payment rate dropped to 6.27% in FY 2020 from 7.25% last year, although CMS had to “modify”...more

Saul Ewing LLP

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

Wiley Rein LLP

Safeguarding Health Information in the Apps Ecosystem: A Reminder from the California AG

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra charged Glow, Inc. (Glow), a fertility health app, with privacy and basic security failures that allegedly put women’s “deeply-sensitive” personal and medical information at risk....more

Saul Ewing LLP

Two Different Medical Practices Agree to Settlements in OCR’s 10th and 11th HIPAA Right of Access Initiative Enforcements

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The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently announced it had settled its 10th and 11th enforcement actions in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative (the...more

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