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Medicare and OCR Relax Telehealth Rules Under Medicare and HIPAA

By William Maruca on March 19, 2020

By Margaret J. Davino, Salvatore J. Russo and Nawa A. Lodin

In the Medicare Telemedicine Healthcare Provider Fact Sheet published March 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
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Posted in Articles, HIPAA Enforcement, Privacy & Security, Uncategorized

Breach Notice Deadline Alert

By William Maruca on February 18, 2020

If you are a covered entity who experienced a breach of unsecured protected health information affecting fewer than 500 individuals , you must notify the Office of Human Rights of…
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Posted in Articles, Breach notification, Security Breach Notification, Uncategorized

Foreshadowing HIPAA Trends for 2020

By Michael Kline on January 13, 2020

As she has done for a number of years now, our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch highlighted Fox Rothschild (Fox) lawyers in her annual predictions articles in the January 2020…
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Posted in Articles, Privacy & Security

2019 HIPAA BREACHES: THE BOX SCORES

By William Maruca on December 21, 2019

It’s that time again for year-in-review articles. On December 16, 2019,  Modern Healthcare has published an infographic that compares HIPAA breaches which occurred in 2019 to aggregate breach statistics from…
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Posted in Articles, HIPAA Enforcement

Do You Need To Worry About The New California Data Privacy Law? Maybe

By William Maruca on July 2, 2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will take effect on January 1, 2020 and regulates most entities that collect personal information of California residents.  CCPA was patterned after the European…
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Ransomware Claims A Victim

By William Maruca on April 17, 2019

A two-physician practice in Battle Creek, Michigan is reportedly the first health care provider to cease operations as a result of a ransomware attack.  The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that…
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Bankrupt Medical Records Company Hit with $100,000 Penalty for HIPAA Violations

By William Maruca on August 14, 2018

Filefax, Inc., a defunct Illinois medical records storage and management company, has been fined $100,000 for improperly handling medical data under an agreement with the court-appointed receiver managing the company’s…
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When Data is Like Toothpaste

By William Maruca on April 6, 2018

In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman warned White House Counsel John Dean against talking to prosecutors investigating the growing Watergate scandal, telling him “Once the …
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Posted in Articles, Health IT, Medical Identity Theft, Privacy & Security, Sensitive Health Information

Involuntary Commitment Laws and Privacy Restrictions

By William Maruca on March 7, 2018

In a recent New York Times op-ed piece entitled “How a Bad Law and a Big Mistake Drove My Mentally Ill Son Away,” the father of a young…
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Posted in Articles, Individual Access Rights

Your Business Associates Hold Your HIPAA Compliance Future in Their Hands: Eleven Things You Can Do

By Michael Kline on May 6, 2017

Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were recently featured again by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in the April 2017 issue of Medical Practice Compliance Alert…
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Posted in Articles, HIPAA Business Associates, Privacy & Security

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