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What penalties can UCLA Health System receive from the OCR for being out of compliance with the Privacy and Security regulations?

    • Violations occurred without the knowledge of covered entity and by exercising reasonable diligence would not have known it violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule $100-$50,000 for each violation, with a maximum for individual violations in the same year of $1,500,000 x each violation.
    • Violations due to reasonable cause $1,000 to $50,000 for each violation, with a maximum for individual violations in the same year of $1,500,000 x each violation.
    • Violations due to willful neglect but are corrected within 30 days $10,000 to $50,000 for each violation, with a maximum for individual violations in the same year of $1,500,000 x each violation.
    • Violations due to willful neglect and are not corrected within 30 days $50,000 for each violation, with a maximum for individual violations in the same year of $1,500,000 x each violation.
 
Criminal penalties for a person who knowingly violates HIPAA are as follows:
    • $50,000 and a one year prison term
    • $100,000 and up to 5 years in prison for wrongful conduct involving false pretenses
    • $250,000 and up to 10 years in prison for wrongful conduct with intent to sell, transfer, or
use individually identified health information for personal gain or malicious harm.


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