HIPAA penalties are always discussed in training and presentations about HIPAA.  Those discussions are usually more about an overview of what is in the law than actual information on how the law is applied.  HIPAA penalties are really not seen often. Civil money penalties are not part of the settlements we usually see but OCR announced a big one in October.  How do they really apply those huge numbers everyone talks about but we never see?

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