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Judge rules in favor of OCR and requires a Texas cancer center to pay $4.3 million in penalties for HIPAA violations

This is an announcement of a HIPAA settlement with UT - MD Anderson Cancer Center upheld by an HHS Administrative Law Judge. The target audience is health care professionals.

Final

Issued by: Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

Issue Date: July 10, 1905

Judge rules in favor of OCR and requires a Texas cancer center to pay $4.3 million in penalties for HIPAA violations

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules and granted summary judgment to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on all issues, requiring MD Anderson to pay $4,348,000 in civil money penalties (CMPs) imposed by OCR.

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