Vanta reports many organizations faced HIPAA violations this year, often from staff errors and vendor oversight, highlighting ...

When responding to online patient reviews, some healthcare providers are taking defending their reputation too far, and are violating HIPAA laws, The Verge reported April 1. One North Carolina-based ...

HHS relied mainly on voluntary compliance measures to address HIPAA violations until approximately one year ago. Recent settlements between HHS and healthcare providers suggest, however, that ...

Two Republican congressmen are investigating CVS over concerns that the company used confidential patient information to lobby against a Louisiana bill that would have forced it to break up its ...

Since HIPAA went into effect in 2003, more than 34,000 complaints of privacy violation have been filed. Most complaints (about 80%) were resolved. Many were simply dismissed. Often, a warning was ...

On September 11, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with LA Care related to potential violations of Health Insurance ...

While many healthcare providers are generally aware of their obligations under HIPAA, most do not have a clear sense of what happens if they fail to meet these obligations. At best, most probably are ...

In the past few years, the phrase “HIPAA violation” has been thrown around a lot, often incorrectly. People have cited the law, which protects patient health information, as a reason they can’t be ...

OTTUMWA — A recently completed investigation into three members of the Ottumwa Fire Department revealed multiple violations of department rules, but most notably, sexual misconduct and HIPAA ...

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CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS) is one of the best inexpensive stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On September 8, two Republican congressmen, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and ...

The preamble to the final rule implementing the privacy requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act explicitly invokes the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. “The need ...