UnitedHealth pays $80,000 to settle HIPAA allegations A patient requested his medical records and did not receive them for six months - after the OCR stepped in - agency says.

On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) revised its controversial guidance on how HIPAA applies to the use of online tracking on regulated ...

A model sanctions policy that covered entities (CEs) or business associates (BAs) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) can use to discipline employees and ...

HIPAA complaints and breaches increased from 2017 to 2021, but the agency in charge of auditing compliance said it doesn’t have the resources to handle the uptick. The HHS Office for Civil Rights, or ...

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 ...

In April, 2020, in an effort to facilitate a national pivot to telehealth in light of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights ...

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 ...