tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 23

Physician Note: Stolen PHI-Filled Jump Drive Leads to $1.7 Million Settlement

Plus: CMS offers NPI search tip.If your employee's car gets robbed, you typically don't expect the crime to cost you millions--but that's exactly what happened last week when the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle potential HIPAA violations.Background: A USB hard drive that potentially contained electronic protected health information (ePHI) was stolen from the car of a DHSS employee, after which the Office for Civil Rights found that DHSS "did not have adequate policies and procedures in place to safeguard ePHI," a Department of Health and...

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