Policing Patient Privacy
Few Consequences For Health Privacy Law’s Repeat Offenders
Regulators have logged dozens, even hundreds, of complaints against some health providers for violating federal patient privacy law. Warnings are doled out privately, but sanctions are imposed only rarely. Companies say they take privacy seriously.
The story was co-published with National Public Radio's Shots blog.Readers can hear and read the entire transcript by going to this link >> https://www.propublica.org/article/few-consequences-for-health-privacy-law-repeat-offenders
Few Consequences For Health Privacy Law’s Repeat Offenders
Regulators have logged dozens, even hundreds, of complaints against some health providers for violating federal patient privacy law. Warnings are doled out privately, but sanctions are imposed only rarely. Companies say they take privacy seriously
Methodology: How We Analyzed Privacy Violation Data
ProPublica followed the paper trail to find out the health care facilities that repeatedly violated patient privacy laws. Find out how we did it.
Who is Revealing Your Private Medical Information
THE GOOD NEWS: You can explore the data
Open Payments is the federally run program that collects the information about these financial relationships and makes it available to you.
Here's the link for payments made to providers in Mesa
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search-physician?firstname=&lastname=&city=Mesa&state=AZ&zip=&country=&specialty=
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