RiteAid To Pay $1 Million Fine for Privacy Violations – HIPAA Violation
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid has been fined $1 Million for violating privacy standards of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It is good to see that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) put some teeth into the HIPAA act, and actually extract a meaningful fine for violating the personal privacy rules of the act. Apparently Rite Aid did not properly dispose of identifying information on pill bottles of customers.