Life Hope Labs reached a $16,500 settlement with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over a potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule's right of access provision. The Georgia-based diagnostic laboratory will also implement a corrective action plan, including two years of OCR monitoring. OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer said HIPAA covered laboratories "must follow the law and ensure that they are responding timely to records access requests."