tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 33

Physician Notes: Car Break-in Leads to $750,000 HIPAA Settlement for One Practice

White House: CMS not making enough effort to fix errors. An Indiana oncology practice agreed to pay $750,000 and create a “robust corrective action plan” after a breach that could have exposed information about 55,000 current and former patients, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Sept. 2. Three years ago, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) discovered that someone stole a laptop bag from the car of an employee of the cancer practice. The laptop and an unencrypted backup storage device went missing during the theft, and they included the names, Social Security...

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