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

A Georgia-based pediatric cardiologist received six months of probation for a HIPAA violation he pleaded guilty to in February 2018, The National Law Review reports. The violation — a misdemeanor ...

Idaho State University will pay $400,000 to the U.S. Department of Health Human Services to settle alleged violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. The settlement comes after ISU’s Pocatello Family ...

Indianapolis-based Cancer Care Group has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations with HHS’ Office for Civil Rights following a 2012 data breach that compromised the protected ...

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 ...

Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic of North Carolina has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it might have violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule by disclosing protected ...

On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an $800,000 settlement with a large Florida-based health care provider over potential ...

As companies start requiring workers to be vaccinated, some are wondering whether it's legal for companies to ask about vaccination status. Some are citing HIPAA, short for the Health Insurance ...

On October 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $500,000 settlement with Plastic Surgery Associates of South Dakota (“PSA”) ...

If there’s one place that is rife with sensitive personal data, it’s hospitals. It’s why the United States federal government legislated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ...

Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA ...

Dallas Cowboys Star Ezekiel Elliott is suggesting a leak of his patient information beyond the on-the-record comments from his agent. DALLAS – Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in ...