Question

From the news, research a healthcare organization (other than in attachment 3) which had a HIPAA violation. What was the date, circumstances of the violation, and accessed penalties?

Answer 1

HIPAA : It stand for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996. It was introduced to simplify the administration of healthcare, prevent healthcare fraud,eliminate wastage and maintain a privacy of patient .

There have been many updates to HIPPA time to time for increasing it's efficiency and improvement in it. Latest updates are to improve privacy protection for patients and health plan which are given to subject. Data should be kept safeguard and privacy of patients is to be maintained / protected . Main updates are as follows : 1) HIPPA Privacy Rule

2) HIPPA Security Rule

3) HIPPA Omnibus Rule

4) HIPPA Breach Notification Rule

There are many voilation which causes HIPPA voilation. Some of common voilationa are as follows:

1) Impermissible disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI).

2) Sharing PHI without permission.

3) Theft of patients records.

4) Failure to conduct a risk analysis.

5) Unauthorized access to PHI

6) Failure to maintain and monitor PHI access logs.

7) Failure to Provide patient with copies of their PHI on request.

8) Failure to manage risks of confidentiality about PHI and treatment taken .

HIPPA voilation rules are very strong and severely considered into practice. Main accessed penalities are as follows:

1) State attorneys general can issue fines up to $25000 per voilation category per calendar year.

2) OCR can issue fines up to $1.5 million per voilation category, per calendar year.

3) A jail term for voilation HIPPA is a possiblity with some voilation carrying a penalty of upto 10 years in a jail.

Some of largest HIPPA penalities are :

A) Anthem Inc.-----$16000000-------- in 2018

B) Advocate HealthCare Network ------------$5550000-------in 2016

C) Memorial Healthcare System------------$5500000-------in 2017