About Carlock Elementary Carlock Elementary is a strong rural school in McLean County Unit District No.5. The school draws students from both rural and in-town Carlock, rural Normal, and rural Bloomington.
Category 4: $50,000 minimum fine per violation; The HIPAA penalty fines are issued per violation category, per year that the violation was allowed to continue. The maximum fine per violation category, per year, is $1,500,000. A data breach or security incident that occurs due to any violation could see separate fines issued for different aspects of the breach under multiple security and privacy standards.
Although the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has entered into financial settlements before, this marks the first time it has issued a civil money penalty under HIPAA, and the penalty is significantly higher than previous financial settlements.. Early HIPAA enforcementâvoluntary compliance. The original version of HIPAA had what many considered to be rather weak penalties. Penalties were capped at $100 per day of violation and at $25,000 for the same violation in any one year. Also, HHS took a lot of criticism for its informal enforcement of the act.