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Cyber Attacks Protected Health Information HIPAA Security Rule

McCarter & English, LLP

Season of Enforcement: OCR Announces Its Sixth Enforcement Action of 2025

With 2025 barely three weeks old, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has already announced six enforcement actions for the new year. Particularly significant is the advancement of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

OCR Says HIPAA Audits Will Resume: OIG Makes Recommendations for Enhancement

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Recognizing the increasing number of successful cyberattacks targeting health care organizations and their valuable patient data, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is calling for enhancements to the HIPAA audit...more

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Providers Face HIPAA Compliance Questions After Change Healthcare Cyberattack

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Who will notify the potentially millions of individuals whose information might have been jeopardized by the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare? Since the affiliate of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) first reported the...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

HHS Issue Six Figure Penalty for Ransomware Attack

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Late last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its first HIPAA settlement agreement involving a ransomware attack. In the press release announcing the settlement, HHS stated that they began...more

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HIPAA Business Associate Pays $2.3 Million to Settle Breach Affecting Protected Health Information of Over 6 Million Individuals

With apologies to John Donne, ask not for whom the bells tolls, HIPAA business associates, it tolls for thee! While it has been the law for some time that business associates could be held directly liable for breaches,...more

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