CVS Sued for Alleged Privacy Violations
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 11, 2011
The letters encouraged the physicians to prescribe drugs made by pharmaceutical manufacturers, who paid CVS to send them. This purported disclosure of PHI would violate the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s prohibitions against disclosing PHI for marketing purposes without an individual’s authorization. In 2009, CVS paid $2.25
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