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Which federal agency is responsible for enforcing the HIPAA standards? HHS' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will enforce the Privacy Standard. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will enforce the Security, Transaction and Code Sets, and National Provider Identifier Standards.
The same question arose when state attorneys general were given permission under HITECH to enforce HIPAA violations. State AGs and the OCR often came up with parallel enforcement plans, so the value of the added enforcement agency appears to be limited. Of course, this may change over time if OCR enforcement scales back, the office is defunded, etc.