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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 7th - 9th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CST

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us virtually at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Chicago Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - October 22nd, Chicago, IL

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 2 (February 2020) - A ruling from Georgia’s highest state court could set a precedent that determines recourse for victims of cyberattacks. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled in late December...more

Fisher Phillips

Healthcare Employers, Beware: HIPAA Whistleblowers Could Be (Legally) Leaking Protected Health Information

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In this day and age, healthcare employers are quite familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects the disclosure of patients’ confidential health information. After all, in the...more

The Volkov Law Group

Healthcare Compliance: Juggling Risk Mitigation Strategies

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Healthcare organizations – ranging from physician practice groups to large, multi-state hospital systems – face a variety of risks, including fraud and abuse, as well as HIPAA privacy issues. Starting from a baseline risk...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Qui Tam Defendant’s Confidentiality-Breach Counterclaim Fails

What if a whistleblower discloses the protected health information (PHI) of privately insured patients in making the claim that his employer submitted false Medicare claims? And what if that violates a confidentiality...more

Dickinson Wright

Healthcare Legal News: Volume 5, Number 3

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RESPONDING TO SUBPOENAS AND OTHER REQUESTS FOR PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION: TAKE THEM AT FACE VALUE - Healthcare providers and other HIPAA covered entities receive requests for protected health information (“PHI”) from...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Hospital Fires Back: Accuses Whistleblowers of Violating Patient Confidentiality

Hospitals have long seethed over employees who exploit their inside information to become whistleblowers. There’s generally not much they can do besides seethe unless the employee has some special duty of confidentiality...more

Sands Anderson PC

2013 Virginia Employment Law Pocket Guide

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In this guide: - Employment At-Will - Right to Work - Employment of Children - Restrictive Covenants in Employment Contracts - Virginia Human Rights Act - Virginians with Disabilities...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - June 2013

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Our articles this month focus on health care reform. First, Jim Napoli and Brian Neulander comment on the potential for litigation under the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) whistleblower protections and ERISA Section 510 as a...more

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