On September 11, 2023, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with LA Care Health Plan (LA Care) regarding LA Care’s potential HIPAA Security Rule violations.

John Baackes, CEO of LA Care Health Plan, discusses what the organization has learned following the launch of California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal in January 2022.

L.A. Care, a Los Angeles-based health plan for Medi-Cal recipients, has agreed to pay $1.3 million in a settlement to resolve two privacy and security rule violations and chart a corrective plan ...