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Ryan Hungate: HIPAA violation penalties reach $50,000 per non-compliant email instance

Ryan Hungate · 713: You'll Never Guess What Salary They Gave Up To Launch Their Startup · Jul 7, 2017 · at 10:58

Ryan Hungate, co-founder of healthcare communication platform Simplifeye, explains the financial stakes and regulatory fines for HIPAA non-compliance when healthcare providers exchange patient data.

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“And the fee if they break it is 50,000 dollars per instance. So every time I send one email, that's 50 grand.”

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The claim, plainly

The regulatory penalty for a HIPAA violation is $50,000 per instance, meaning sending patient information over non-compliant email can cost $50,000 per email.

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Assessment

As of July 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) civil monetary penalty structure under the HITECH Act (codified at 45 C.F.R. § 160.404 under the 2013 Omnibus Final Rule) established a statutory penalty tier of $50,000 per violation. Under this framework, $50,000 served as the maximum per-violation penalty for Tiers 1 through 3 and the baseline statutory minimum per violation for Tier 4 (uncorrected willful neglect), with each unauthorized transmission of protected health information qualifying as a separate violation instance. Although annual inflation adjustments under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act raised the nominal cap slightly ($55,010 in 2016 and $55,907 in 2017), the statutory baseline tier of $50,000 per instance was established and in effect.

Section 13410 of the HITECH Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320d-5(a)) established civil monetary penalty tiers including a $50,000 per-violation cap for Tiers 1-3 and a $50,000 per-violation statutory minimum for Tier 4.
HHS 2013 Omnibus Final Rule codified at 45 C.F.R. § 160.404 adopted the $50,000 per violation tier structure across HIPAA enforcement categories.

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[1] accountablehq.com [2] armorstack.ai [3] hipaacertify.com [4] ama-assn.org [5] compliancy-group.com [6] ada.org [7] federalregister.gov [8] hipaajournal.com

"Federal Register" HHS "civil monetary penalties" "160.404" 2016 2017 "50,000" HIPAA civil monetary penalties tier 50000 per violation 2017 HITECH HIPAA penalty tiers 50000 per violation HHS regulations 2013 2017

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Disclosure

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