Ipaa Settlement News Today

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, OCR announced a settlement with a New Jersey provider of adult and child psychiatric services, the provider “impermissibly disclosed the PHI of four (4) patients in response to their negative reviews posted on Google Reviews.”

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights $350,000 settlement resulted from MedEvolve’s alleged violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA related to a data breach of the protected health information PHI