by PC Editorial Staff | Oct 11, 2023 | Federal Labor Law, HHS, HIPAA, Human Resources, Latest News, OCR
On October 6th, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency that enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), published its 2023 annual inflation adjustments to the civil monetary penalties for HIPAA...
by PC Editorial Staff | Dec 6, 2022 | Consumer Privacy, HHS, HIPAA, OCR
This month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin applying a covered entity’s obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to online data tracking...
by Girish Anand | Sep 9, 2019 | HHS, HIPAA, OCR
July was n historic month when it comes to breaches of health care data involving incidents affecting 500 or more persons, with a total of more than 50 such breaches reported to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) affecting more than 35 million individuals. According to...
by Girish Anand | Jun 10, 2019 | HIPAA, OCR
Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. (MIE) has agreed to pay $900,000 to 16 states whose attorneys general had sued the company over a data breach in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Simultaneously, MIE settled with the...
by Girish Anand | May 28, 2019 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, gender identity, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, OCR
The Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) contains language prohibiting discrimination in health care based on sex, which was expanded under a 2016 rule by the Obama-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to include gender identity. Now the Trump HHS has...
by Girish Anand | Feb 11, 2019 | HHS, OCR
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has concluded an all-time record year in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement activity. In 2018, OCR settled 10 cases and was granted summary...
