Cignet Health in Temple Hills, Md., has been ordered to pay $4.3 million for violating the privacy rule of HIPAA, according to a news release from the Department of Health and Human Services. The ...

Maryland-based Cignet Health has been slapped with a $4.3 million fine for its refusal to provide patients with copies of their health records, and for willfully failing to cooperate with the federal ...

OCR also found that Cignet failed to cooperate with OCR's investigations on a continuing daily basis from March 17, 2009, to April 7, 2010, and that the failure to cooperate was due to Cignet's ...

For the first time, federal officials have issued a civil monetary penalty to a healthcare organization for violations of the HIPAA privacy rule. Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Md., was ...

HHS is sending a very clear message with one of its latest penalties--if you're caught with a violation of HIPAA privacy or security laws, you're going to be fined ... a lot. It recently levied a ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a Notice of Final Determination ...

HHS' Office for Civil Rights fined Cignet Health $4.3 million for blocking patients' access to their medical records and for failing to cooperate in the investigation. The first-ever fines imposed ...

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Cignet Health in Temple Hills, Md., has been ordered to pay $4.3 million for violating the privacy rule of HIPAA, according to a news release from the Department of Health and Human Services. The ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has fined Cignet Health of Prince George's County, Md., $4.3 million, in what officials say is the first civil ...