Medical center to pay $80K for Covid-19 patient info shared with media
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Kyle Brasseur2023-11-21T17:43:00
An academic medical center in New York agreed to pay $80,000 as part of a settlement with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Saint Joseph’s Medical Center impermissibly disclosed the protected health information of Covid-19 patients to the Associated Press (AP) for an article on its response to the public health emergency, the OCR said in a press release Monday.
In April 2020, Saint Joseph’s allowed an AP reporter to observe three patients being treated for Covid-19. The media outlet’s article included photographs and information about the facility’s patients that was presented without their consent.
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