Anthem pays $16 million in record HIPAA settlement for data breach

Healthcare Finance: Anthem has agreed to pay $16 million to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights to settle HIPAA violations after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest health data breach in this country.

The 2015 breach exposed the protected health information of close to 79 million people by affecting electronic protected health information that Anthem maintained for its affiliated health plans and other covered entity health plans.

The largest previous settlement was $5.5 million paid to the OCR in 2016.

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