Posts Tagged ‘HIPAA’
Colorado Pharmacy Reaches HIPAA Settlement
Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Cornell Prescription Pharmacy (Cornell Pharmacy) in Denver, Colorado agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). As part of the settlement, Cornell Pharmacy has agreed to pay a $125,000 penalty…
Read MoreHIPAA Award Upheld After Pharmacist Shared Patient Data
Last week, the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a $1.4 million verdict against Walgreens and one of its pharmacists who violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when she reviewed prescription records of a woman who had once dated her husband. In short, the facts of the case are as follows: The pharmacist…
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