Lexology December 30, 2019
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is actively pursuing HIPAA enforcement actions pursuant to the Right of Access Initiative that OCR announced earlier this year. Under this initiative, OCR’s goal is to ensure that patients are receiving their medical records in a timely fashion and in their format of choice without being overcharged. Korunda Medical, LLC (Korunda), a Florida-based provider of comprehensive primary care and interventional pain management, is the second health care provider to have settled a HIPAA violation under this initiative.

OCR received a complaint about Korunda in March 2019 alleging that Korunda failed to promptly provide medical records to a third party even after the patient repeatedly requested them...

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