To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a flurry of enforcement actions in the last quarter of 2020 as part of its Right of Access Initiative. The Right of Access Initiative began in 2019 with OCR declaring its intention to enforce vigorously the rights of patients to receive copies of their medical records promptly and without being overcharged. Since then, this initiative has remained a top enforcement priority of OCR. There have been thirteen separate enforcement actions, including six in the final quarter of 2020, making good on the warning from OCR Director Roger Severino that “it's time for serious enforcement” in this area.