Monitoring Legal Developments Relating to the Privacy and Security of Health Information
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…
Continue Reading Medicare and OCR Relax Telehealth Rules Under Medicare and HIPAA
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…
Continue Reading Breach Notice Deadline Alert
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…
Continue Reading Foreshadowing HIPAA Trends for 2020
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…
Continue Reading 2019 HIPAA BREACHES: THE BOX SCORES
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…
Continue Reading Do You Need To Worry About The New California Data Privacy Law? Maybe
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…
Continue Reading Ransomware Claims A Victim
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…
Continue Reading Bankrupt Medical Records Company Hit with $100,000 Penalty for HIPAA Violations
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 …
Continue Reading When Data is Like Toothpaste
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…
Continue Reading Involuntary Commitment Laws and Privacy Restrictions
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…
Continue Reading Your Business Associates Hold Your HIPAA Compliance Future in Their Hands: Eleven Things You Can Do
