settlement
$2.14 million HIPAA settlement underscores importance of managing security risk: $2,140,000
Resolution Oct 2016
Penalty
$2,140,000
Action type
Settlement
Entity profile
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Case number
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What went wrong
$2.14 million HIPAA settlement underscores importance of managing security risk
Timeline
- ResolutionOct 2016
- Incident and investigation milestones are not consistently published by OCR in machine-readable form.
Key takeaways for your organization
- Align policies, procedures, and evidence with the specific CFR provisions cited in OCR resolutions affecting your entity type.
- Run tabletop exercises for breach response, OCR inquiry handling, and privilege-preserving communications with counsel.
- Revisit business associate inventory and downstream vendor security assurances after major enforcement themes in your sector.
Related actions
Judge rules in favor of OCR and requires a Texas cancer center to pay $4.3 million in penalties for HIPAA violations
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$4,300,000
Careless handling of HIV information jeopardizes patient’s privacy, costs entity $387k
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$387
Allergy Practice pays $125,000 to settle doctor's disclosure of patient information to a reporter
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$125,000
Source
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services release
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. medcomply.ai aggregates public materials for educational use, not legal advice.