PARCA eNews – Jan. 15, 2019 While most of the new about fines levied against healthcare organizations focus on those imposed by the federal government’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), the enforcement arm of the Department Health and Human Services, the fines don’t stop there.
According to a report in the HIPAA Journal states Attorneys General have also levied fines on organizations found to violate privacy rules.
The largest penalty was issued against Aetna by New York for $1.15 million, followed by a $575,000 fine levied against EmblemHealth by New York, and $417,816 against Virtua Medical Group by New Jersey.
As a consequence organizations are cracking down on employees responsible for HIPAA breaches and as the journal also reported hackers are facing stiff prison sentences, as shown by the 10 year sentence and $443,000 fine for the hacker behind the Distributed Denial of Service attack on Boston’s Children’s Hospital.
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