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Print article"Enforcement Trends Five Lessons from Recent OCR Resolution Agreements and Other Enforcement Risks" by Beth Pitman on the Waller Healthcare Blog
March, 2017 - Elizabeth N. Pitman, CHPC
Since January 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has entered into two Resolution Agreementsfor HIPAA violations, one Resolution Agreement for failure to timely report a breach, and one of only three Civil Money Penalties (CMP) imposed for HIPAA violations since 2009. In 2016, OCR entered into 12 Resolution Agreements. That was at least double the number in prior years.
