The number of reported HIPAA violations is on the rise. HHS' Office for Civil Rights received 10,454 HIPAA violation complaints in 2012, the highest number of complaints to that point, according to the OCR's latest Annual Report to Congress on HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule Compliance.
Of the complaints investigated, 77 percent resulted in corrective action. The following is a breakdown of the states seeing the highest and lowest percentage of violations resulting in corrective action, compiled by True Vault, a HIPAA compliance service for startups.
States where corrective action was taken in less than 20 percent of cases:
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
States where corrective action was taken for 20 to 25 percent of cases:
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
West Virginia
Wisconsin
States where corrective action was taken for 26 to 30 percent of cases:
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
States where corrective action was taken for 30 to 40 percent of cases:
Alaska
Idaho
New Hampshire
Oregon
Washington
Wyoming
States where corrective action was taken more than 40 percent of the time:
Rhode Island
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