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Our colleagues at Data Law Insights have written about the HHS Office of Civil Rights’ $750,000 settlement with the University of Washington Medicine (“UWM”) announced this week.  This third settlement in as many weeks confirms that the security risk analysis continues to be a linchpin of OCR enforcement under the HIPAA Security Rule.  Indeed, the …

Last week, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement that has far-reaching implications on the importance of complying with the HIPAA Security Rule where medical devices create and maintain electronic protected health information (ePHI).  See Data Law Insights for a post authored by Jodi Daniel, Elliot Golding, and Stephanie Willis for more…

On September 8, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights promulgated proposed regulations implementing Affordable Care Act Section 1557’s anti-discrimination provisions. Section 1557 applies federal anti-discrimination laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color and national origin, sex, disability, and age to health care programs that receive federal funds, such …

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced in an April 22, 2014, press release that two separate entities—Concentra Health Services (“Concentra”) and QCA Health Plan, Inc. (“QCA”)—collectively have paid almost $2 million to resolve potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996…