
Miami-Based Hospital Fined $2.15M
for Multiple HIPAA Violations
Miami-based Jackson Health System (JHS) paid the Office for Civil Rights a civil monetary penalty of $2.15 million for multiple HIPAA violations between 2013 and 2016, the agency announced today. Describing Jackson Health’s HIPAA compliance program as in ‘disarray,’ OCR Director Roger Severino says multiple HIPAA violations spurred the hefty civil monetary penalty. The nonprofit academic medical center operates six major hospitals, an urgent care center network, multiple prim