HunterMaclean understands the critical importance of protecting health care information and ensuring compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA). Our HIPAA & Health Care Cybersecurity team provides comprehensive legal services to health care providers, insurers, and businesses operating in the health care industry.
HunterMaclean understands the critical importance of protecting health care information and ensuring compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA). Our HIPAA & Health Care Cybersecurity team provides comprehensive legal services to healthcare providers, insurers, and businesses operating in the health care industry.
We assist our clients in navigating complex regulatory requirements to safeguard patient data and mitigate regulatory and other legal risks.
Using a methodical and individualized approach, our team advises clients on privacy compliance assessments, incident preparation, breach response, training, HIPAA compliance documentation, data monetization, risk assessment related to pixels and other website tracking tools, and defense against plaintiff class actions or government investigations alleging privacy violations.
Experience
Performance of HIPAA data breach risk assessments and investigations.
Advise clients on HIPAA regulatory obligations, including audit trail and audit log requirements, corrective actions, and reporting HIPAA breaches to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”).
Review of contractual arrangements involving the use or dissemination of protected health information (“PHI”) for compliance with HIPAA and other state and federal privacy requirements.
Preparation of privacy, security and breach notification policies and business associate agreements (“BAAs”) for healthcare providers and business associates
HIPAA (including HITECH) compliance and development of business associate agreements
Represented providers, business associates, and other covered entities in OCR investigations for alleged HIPAA privacy and security violations.
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