The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on April 10, 2025, that it has settled alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations with Northeast Radiology for $350,000.
The investigation followed a breach report by Northeast Radiology to OCR in March 2020 after unauthorized individuals accessed radiology images stored in PAC servers. Northeast Radiology notified 298,532 patients of the breach. The OCR alleges that, during the investigation, Northeast Radiology “failed to conduct an accurate and thorough risk analysis to determine the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the ePHI in NERAD’s information systems.”
Northeast Radiology agreed to enter into a resolution agreement with OCR that included a settlement payment of $350,000 and a supervised corrective action plan for two years.