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10.24.2016
According to the Ponemon Institute, almost all health care providers and other “covered entities” will experience a data breach. If protected health information is compromised by the breach, the entity would be required to report the breach under the Health...
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08.24.2016
What happens when a health care provider experiences several breaches, affecting a staggering 4 million people? Advocate Health Care Network (“Advocate”), an Illinois health system, found out the hard way after a subsidiary reported to the Department of...
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08.03.2016
Amidst a flurry of enforcement actions against covered entities, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently settled with a business associate for $650,000, with a two-year Corrective Action Plan, after its Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...
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07.18.2016
Earlier this year, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of Health and Human Services announced that its Phase Two audits would begin in 2016. Now, covered entities are feeling the heat, as all covered entities selected for a desk audit have...
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07.13.2016
One of the fastest-rising cyber threats to businesses of all kinds, “ransomware” has already affected several hospitals and health systems. For example, in March, we published an Alert on the attack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, which kept the...
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07.06.2016
The North Carolina General Assembly adjourned for 2016 with no major changes to North Carolina’s alcohol laws.
North Carolina legislation that allows wine shippers to file excise tax reports on an annual basis, rather than a monthly basis, passed and went...
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06.27.2016
Lately, there have been several headlines with the keyword “HIPAA” and dollar signs with a lot of zeroes. The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has been active lately in enforcing HIPAA, entering into several settlements with providers of various sizes and...
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06.09.2016
North Carolina House Bill 169, the Regulatory Reduction Act of 2016, proposes to authorize North Carolina distilleries to “better complete nationally and internationally” by allowing distilleries to sell direct to consumers for delivery outside of North...
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06.08.2016
Wine shippers will now file excise tax reports annually, rather than monthly, under a New North Carolina law that went into effect on 11 May 2016.
Sections 4.3 and 4.12 of the new law require wine shippers to submit verified reports once per year to the...
