What is the Penalty for a HIPAA Violation? HIPAA violations, like violation of the HIPAA privacy rule, cost your practice. The federal fines for noncompliance are based on the level of perceived negligence found within your organization at the time of the HIPAA violation. These fines and conseq...
The Department of Justice hasbecome increasingly proactivein pursuing those who knowingly breach HIPAA Rules. State attorneys general are also cracking down on data theft and making examples out of individuals found to have violated HIPAA, as the number of employees caught accessing or stealing PHI h...