HIPAA fines are about to get a whole lot heavier, according to Jason Gavejian of Jackson Lewis, who says that in the last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recovered more than $10 million for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. At a recent conference, Gavejian reports that Jerome Meites, a chief regional civil rights counsel at the HHS, told the attendees to expect “the past 12 months of enforcement to pale in comparison to the next 12 months.”
And fines aren’t the only things that are being stepped up over at HHS. Gavejian says the Office for Civil Rights is promising to conduct new rounds of audits, with more than 1,200 companies slated to be scrutinized. “Entities subject to HIPAA’s requirements need to be conscious of not only the planned aggressive punishment related to privacy breaches and security lapses, but also the OCR’s extensive audit strategy,” warns Gavejian.
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