Employees at UCLA Medical Center snoop into celebrity patients’ medical records. UCLA self-reports, but still pays a $865,500 fine. A Massachusetts General Hospital researcher leaves a box of medical files on the subway, the records are never found and there’s no indication of identity theft or other wrongdoing. And Mass General pays a $1 million fine. Cignet Health ignores patient requests for copies of records, and there’s no improper disclosure at all, but Cignet is fined $4.3 million. A UCLA surgeon looks at medical records… [more]