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If OCR Investigator Calls, Don't Take Their Word For It

Published on Fri Jun 12, 2020

Watch out for yet another scam to swipe your patients’ private info. An individual posing as an HHS Office for Civil Rights investigator has contacted HIPAA-covered entities in an attempt to obtain protected health information, OCR says.“The individual identifies themselves on the telephone as an OCR investigator, but does not provide an OCR complaint transaction number or any other verifiable [...]
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