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Kaiser hit with $250,000 fine for privacy violations

By Richard Binder

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California health regulators fined Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower hospital $250,000 yesterday for violating patient privacy laws when several hospital employees inappropriately accessed medical records for octuplet mother Nadya Suleman.

The California Department of Public Health found the hospital did not do enough to prevent the violations. A state report said 21 employees and two physicians inappropriately accessed Suleman's files. Fifteen people were fired or forced to resign, and another eight received undisclosed reprimands.

The fine is the first monetary penalty imposed and largest allowed under a new state law enacted last year after widely publicized violations of privacy at UCLA Medical Center involving Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears, California First Lady Maria Shriver and other celebrities.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).

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