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Investigative news outlet ProPublica is releasing hundreds of closing letters issued to providers by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. When the OCR fines a company for violating HIPAA, it issues a press release with details, but, the report points out, the agency sends thousands of letters per year to providers to resolve complaints about possible HIPAA violations. The letters tend to remind providers of legal requirements and provide advice on how to ameliorate any issues they have uncovered. Though the OCR could make such letters public, it chooses not to. “As part of its examination into the impact of privacy violations on patients,” the report states, “ProPublica has posted about 300 of these ‘closure letters’ in our HIPAA Helper tool.” The goal is to allow users to “review the details of these cases and track repeat offenders.” ProPublica said it obtained the letters through Freedom of Information Act requests.
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