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Breach Notification Rule Fines

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Disclosure of Full Record to Employer Results in $35K Fine, Broad CAP; Echoes of 2017 HIV Case

It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Equifax Breach Affects 143M: If GDPR Were in Effect, What Would Be the Impact?

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The security breach announced by Equifax Inc. on September 7, 2017, grabbed headlines around the world as Equifax revealed that personal data of roughly 143 million consumers in the United States and certain UK and Canadian...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Entity Fined $650,000 in First HIPAA Settlement with a Business Associate

The possibility of business associates potentially being audited, investigated, and ultimately fined is now a reality. On June 24, 2016, the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Health Care Law Alert: Skagit County Fined $215,000 for HIPAA Violations

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Skagit County in northwest Washington state has been fined $215,000 for violations of the HIPAA privacy, security, and breach notification rules. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights...more

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