HIPAA Compliance Officer: Avoid Fines of $50,000 Per Violation

As a Medicare provider, your practice is required to designate a HIPAA Compliance Officer – and now, it’s more important than ever.

In recent years, significant surges in PHI breaches (including cyberattacks) have driven federal and state government regulators to add a variety of new HIPAA laws, increase OCR audits, and strengthen violation enforcement in 2026.

Your HIPAA Compliance Officer must take action right now to ensure your practice is ready to combat telemedicine, the 21st Century Cures Act (Information Blocking), Right of Access, Care Coordination, texting, emailing, Information Sharing, Notice of Privacy Practices, and business associate rule changes, updates, and enforcements.

Your HIPAA Compliance Officer must master these complex rule additions and updates, which is no easy task – unless they have help from someone who knows how.

Help is available from HIPAA expert Brian L Tuttle, CPHIT, CHP, CHA, CBRA, CISSP, CCNA. Brian is presenting a 60-minute online training that will walk you through HIPAA rule additions and changes that pose the highest risk to your practice. Bottom line, Brian will show you how to bulletproof your HIPAA compliance now that audits are increasing and enforcement is intensifying.

• Don’t let new Patient’s Right to Access requirements lead to HIPAA violation penalties
• Avoid lawsuits for releasing patient records incorrectly (know when a valid patient signature isn’t enough)
• Unearth when a HIPAA subpoena isn’t sufficient to release medical records
• Ensure your mobile device policy (email/text) really protects your practice
• Pin down when state laws take precedence over federal HIPAA regulations
• Avoid HIPAA penalties because your vendor contracts aren’t sufficient
• Stop easy-to-make telemedicine HIPAA errors that can get you into trouble
• Document HIPAA Compliance Officer duties to head off avoidable penalties
• Head off care coordination HIPAA mistakes that will get you audited
• And so much more…

Your practice faces an enormous number of HIPAA issues and risks in 2026. Especially now that HIPAA HITECH is fully implemented and the government is no longer using enforcement kid gloves.

HIPAA was once a rarely enforced law, but that has changed. Don’t risk HIPAA penalties as much as $50,000 for each violation. Your HIPAA Compliance Officer must sign up for this online training with HIPAA expert Brian Tuttle to fully protect your practice.

• Practice managers
• Any business associates who work with medical practices or hospitals (i.e. billing companies, transcription companies, IT companies, answering services, home health, coders, attorneys, etc)
• MD’s and other medical professionals.