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Legal News about HIPAA Compliance

The HIPAA Journal legal news section contains details of the latest enforcement activities by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, including settlements and civil monetary penalties, and legal actions taken against covered entities by state attorneys general.

You will also find brief details of class action lawsuits and other legal actions filed against covered entities for HIPAA violations, privacy violations, and data breaches, along with other legal news specifically relating to HIPAA or other legal matters of particular relevance to the healthcare industry.

Changes to HIPAA Rules are detailed in the HIPAA Updates category, although this section does include updates to state legislation, in particular any changes to breach notification and cybersecurity laws that are relevant to healthcare organizations.

Labcorp Agrees to $35M Settlement to Resolve AMCA Data Breach Litigation

Labcorp AMCA data breach settlement

A $35,000,000 settlement has been agreed to resolve a long-running class action lawsuit against Labcorp over a 2018 cybersecurity incident...

Duke University Health System; Derick Dermatology Settle Class Action Pixel Lawsuits

Duke University Health System and Derick Dermatology class action pixel settlements

Two more healthcare providers have settled lawsuits over their use of website tracking technologies: Duke University Health System and Derick...

Henderson & Walton Women’s Center Settles Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

Henderson & Walton Women’s Center class action data breach settlement

Henderson & Walton Women’s Center, a Birmingham, AL-based provider of women’s healthcare services, has agreed to settle a class action...

Onsite Women’s Health $2.5M Data Breach Settlement

Onsite Women’s Health Data Breach Settlement

A breach of the email account of an employee of Onsite Women’s Health that exposed the protected health information of...

$3.3M Settlement Resolves Data Breach Lawsuit Against Mt. Baker Imaging & Northwest Radiologists

Mt Baker Imaging Northwest Radiologists data breach settlement

Mt. Baker Imaging and Northwest Radiologists have agreed to pay $3,300,000 to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit stemming from...

Family Medicine Centers Pay $2.15M to Resolve Data Breach Lawsuit

Family Medicine Centers data breach settlement

FMC Services, LLC, which does business as Family Medicine Centers in Texas, has agreed to a $2,150,000 settlement to resolve...

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Mission Community Hospital Pays $1.55M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

Mission Community Hospital class action data breach settlement

Deanco Healthcare, LLC, the operator of Mission Community Hospital, an acute care hospital serving patients in the San Fernando Valley...

Home Healthcare Agency Owner Facing Decades in Jail for $1.6M Medicare Fraud Scheme

The owner and operator of a Michigan home health care company has been convicted of five counts of healthcare fraud...

Datavant Group to Pay $900,000 to Settle Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit

Datavant group class action data breach settlement

A settlement has been agreed to resolve a class action lawsuit against Ciox Health, which does business as Datavant Group,...

Endue Software Agrees to $870,000 Data Breach Settlement

Endue Software data breach settlement

Endue Software has agreed to pay $870,000 to settle a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a...

Esse Health Agrees to Pay 2.53M to Settle Data Breach Lawsuit

Esse Health data breach settlement

American Multispecialty Group, doing business as Esse Health, a Missouri-based independent physician group serving the greater St. Louis area, experienced...

Former Nuance Employee Sentenced for 1.2 Million-record Geisinger Health System Data Breach

A former employee of Nuance Communications, a business associate of Geisinger Health System that provided IT and conversational AI services,...

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