Annual Breach Notification Deadline to OCR Looming
HIPAA requires that covered entities notify the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of any breaches of unsecured protected health information that affects less than 500 individuals in a calendar year within...
OCR Settles Eleven More Cases Under Right of Access Initiative
Making quite the statement on July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in a press release that it had recently settled an additional 11 cases under its Right...
OCR Announces 20th Settlement Under Right of Access Initiative
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced that it has entered into the 20th settlement under its Right of Access Initiative. The settlement with Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in...
OCR Settles Two More Right of Access Cases
Continuing its serious march against covered entities not allowing patients access to their records, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has settled two more cases in two days in its Right...
OCR Continues to Enforce Its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced another settlement involving investigations under its Right of Access Initiative. This settlement, the sixteenth such agreement under the Initiative (and one of the...
Excellus Health Plan Pays $5.1M to OCR in Settlement Following Data Breach
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced that it had entered into a Resolution Agreement, Corrective Action Plan, and settlement with Lifetime Healthcare,...
OCR Settles Another Right-of-Access Initiative Case
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a press release on November 12, 2020, announcing that it had settled its eleventh enforcement action in its HIPAA Right-of-Access Initiative. The settlement with...
OCR’s Tenth Right to Access Settlement Is Small but Meaningful
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently settled a tenth case under its right-to-access initiative with California-based Riverside Psychiatric Medical Group (RPMG), for $25,000. Although a relatively small settlement in the...
OCR Settles with NY Spine for Failure to Provide Access to Records
Continuing its enforcement priority of assisting patients with obtaining access to their health records, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently settled its ninth case with a covered entity that...