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You think you’ve got HIPAA compliance handled, in order to try to stay ahead of steep federal penalties, and then learn that is just the beginning of the story. HIPAA compliance itself is thorny. [...]

Is HIPAA compliance a mystery to you? What do you have to do for HIPAA, and when?

Worried about HIPAA compliance for your healthcare website or digital health app? Consider a class action privacy lawsuit that came—and went—against MDLive. MDLive received a class-action [...]

PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND SECURITY ISSUES ARISE WHEN PRACTICING TELEHEALTH OR TELEMEDICINE JUST AS THEY DO IN A BRICK-AND-MORTAR PRACTICE. IT’S ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THESE [...]

When leaving a medical practice, can you take patient records?

Common HIPAA violations are flagged by HIPAA Helper, a publication of ProPublica,an "independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."

Healthcare bonuses raise fee-splitting and anti-kickback issues; is there a workaround?

A physician called our law firm, complaining that the management company had "embezzled" funds from the account for the medical doctor's clinic. What should he do?

Is your data safe? Healthcare hacks and data breaches increasing, even as HIPAA compliance grows. HIPAA training, HIPAA compliance, HIPAA manuals, HIPAA policies & procedures, HIPAA forms matter [...]

Expect to see more and more compliance enforcement actions against physician practices - and also more physician awareness of how they can pro-actively manage liability and follow legal [...]