Mental Health/substance abuse providers and providers treating HIV/AIDS patients are held to a higher standard when it comes to protecting medical records, requiring additional levels of consent and ...

St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Inc. (SLRHC), a member of the New York-based Mount Sinai Health System, paid $387,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and entered into a ...

Another healthcare organization has admitted to the breach of privacy in a mailing of HIV information to members. Amida Care, a nonprofit health plan based in New York City, sent its members ...

New York City-based St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center will pay $387,200 and implement a corrective action plan as part of a HIPAA settlement to resolve allegations it inappropriately handled a ...

Aetna has violated HIPAA law by exposing through a transparent window of an envelope mailed to members, information on HIV medication, according to the Legal Action Center and the AIDS Law Project of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — University of Arkansas Medical Sciences fired three employees over sharing an HIV patient’s private medical information. The records included the patient’s name, age, surgical ...

The Ohio Department of Health says pharmacy giant CVS mishandled patient information in 2017 when it send out a mailing to more than 4,000 participants in a drug-assistance program that had the ...

I have to cringe when people claim their HIPAA rights have been violated because a business asks for their vaccine status. Their claims in no way relate to HIPAA. HIPAA is the Health Insurance ...

The city of Portland is apologizing to more than 200 patients previously enrolled in its HIV-positive health program for not telling them it planned to share their private health information with ...

We need an appropriately thoughtful and comprehensive discussion of how best to regulate health information wherever it is collected. HIPAA was enacted in 1996. A lot has changed over the past 22 ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA, protects personally identifiable health information of patients, and specifies to providers how such information may ...