Fierce Healthcare September 10, 2019
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) fined its first hospital under an initiative to combat information blocking, charging that a Florida hospital took too long to fulfill a patient’s record request.
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg must pay HHS’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR) $85,000 for failing to give a mother timely access to records about her unborn child, the agency said Monday. The fine is the first enforcement action taken under the Right of Access Initiative launched earlier this year to combat information blocking at healthcare facilities.
“Providing patients with their health information not only lowers costs and leads to better health outcomes, it’s the law,” said OCR Director Roger Severino in a statement.
HHS initiated the investigation...
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