Cori Ilardi, Author at Blog HIPAA

St. Joseph Health Reaches $7.5M Settlement Agreement in Health Care Data Breach

St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit for a 2012 health care data breach. SJHS will split a total settlement of $7.5 million, paying class members $242 each. In addition to the $7.5 million settlement, $3 million has been set aside for patients who suffered from identity theft.… Read More »

Physical Therapy Provider Settles with OCR for $25,000 in PHI Breach

On February 16, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced it had reached a settlement with Complete P.T., Pool & Land Physical Therapy, Inc. (CPT) after the organization exposed the protected health information (PHI) of a number of its patients. CPT, a California-based physical therapy practice,… Read More »