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What are the Penalties for HIPAA Violations?

HIPAA Journal

There was a reduction in the number of financial penalties for HIPAA violations in 2021 from the record number of penalties of 2020, with OCR’s decision to finalize penalties potentially being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2021, one of the largest ever HIPAA fines was imposed on Excellus Health Plan.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

HIPAA Journal

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. A misconfigured server had exposed protected health information on the Internet and files had been indexed by search engines.

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Health Provider News

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