Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. (November 2022)
Nearly five years passed from the time the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that three...more
11/14/2022
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
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Data Privacy ,
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
HIPAA Violations ,
HITECH Act ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Statutory Penalties
Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 5 (May, 2022) -
Compared to other agencies, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a little fish in the big federal pond, but it has an outsize effect on HIPAA covered entities (CEs) and...more
5/6/2022
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fines ,
Funding ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Violations ,
HITECH Act ,
Injunctive Relief ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
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Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 12 (December, 2021) -
Amid the letters of congratulations to new HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Lisa Pino is a plea from the American Hospital Association (AHA): “victims” of...more
12/10/2021
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Business Associates ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Covered Entities ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
HIPAA Security Rule ,
OCR ,
Popular ,
Request For Information ,
Rulemaking Process
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 12 (December, 2021) -
Washington State University’s (WSU) recent settlement with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) for more than $800,000 followed a university-wide audit that...more
12/2/2021
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud ,
Grants ,
OIG ,
Restitution ,
Salary Caps ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Universities
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 6 (June 2021) -
Nearly four years after noticing spending “irregularities” by a principal investigator (PI), the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) entered into a settlement...more
5/21/2021
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Conflicts of Interest ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
FCOI ,
Fringe Benefits ,
HRSA ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
OIG ,
Risk Assessment ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Settlement Agreements
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 10 (September 24, 2020)
What the federal government—and a whistleblower—allege were False Claims Act (FCA) violations actually resulted from an “accounting discrepancy,” according to the...more
9/26/2020
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Compliance ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Grants ,
Fraud ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Popular ,
Restitution ,
Salaried Employees ,
Whistleblowers
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 8 (August 2020) -
Last month, leaders from Agape Health Services in rural Washington, North Carolina, were happy to share photos of the shell of a building in neighboring Plymouth, that,...more
8/10/2020
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Compliance ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
Data Breach ,
FQHC ,
Health Care Providers ,
HIPAA Security Rule ,
Laches ,
Noncompliance ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Rural Health Care Providers ,
Settlement
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 2 (January 23, 2020) -
Acting with “deliberate ignorance” and “reckless disregard” are not words that any institution wants to hear associated with its name. But these are at the heart...more
1/28/2020
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Compliance ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Failure To Disclose ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Funding ,
Federal Grants ,
Foreign Investment ,
Foreign Workers ,
Government Investigations ,
Medical Research ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
OIG ,
Omissions ,
Research Funding ,
Restitution ,
Settlement
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 1 (January 2020) -
Ah, those pesky residents. If you’re a teaching hospital, you can’t live without them, right? But sometimes living with them is mighty costly, as the University of...more
12/19/2019
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Encryption ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Violations ,
Laptop Computers ,
Medical Research ,
Medical Residents ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Settlement ,
Teaching Hospitals
Report on Patient Privacy 19, no. 12 (December 2019) -
Sentara Hospitals, a nonprofit group of 12 medical centers in Virginia and North Carolina, will implement a fairly minimal two-year corrective action plan (CAP) and...more
12/5/2019
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Billing Errors ,
Business Associates ,
Business Associates Agreement (BAA) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Compliance ,
Corrective Actions ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Health Care Violations ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Hospitals ,
Inadvertent Disclosure ,
Medical Records ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Settlement