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tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 17
PHYSICIAN NOTES: California-Based HIPAA Violator Sentenced to Jail Time
Plus: OIG finds that over 70 percent of high-dollar payments resulted in overpayments. Just when you thought you could rest on your HIPAA laurels, comes news that investigators take patient privacy violations more seriously than ever. Last week, a hospital employee in California was sentenced to four months in prison for reading medical files that did not pertain to his line of work. The employee, a hospital researcher at the UCLA School of Medicine, accessed patient records at the hospital over 300 times during a three-week period, mostly to peek at the private health records of celebrities, according to...
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