States With Highest, Lowest HIPAA Corrective Action Enforcement Rates

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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