The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it has settled its first case for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Right of Access Initiative and has fined Bayfront Health St. Petersburg in Florida $85,000. Bayfront has also adopted a correction plan to prevent potential violations of the right of access provision and agreed to one year of monitoring by OCR. The OCR investigated after a mother reported Bayfront took more than nine months to supply the requested medical records of her child. HIPAA Rules require health care providers supply records within 30 days of the first request.
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