The $25K Wake-Up Call: What Every Small Practice Needs to Know About OCR’s Latest Ransomware Settlement

Small practices aren’t flying under the radar anymore—and this neurology case proves it. 

If you’re running a small practice and thinking you’re too insignificant for federal regulators to notice, the latest OCR settlement should shatter that illusion. A modest New York neurology practice just paid $25,000 and signed up for two years of federal oversight—not because they were intentionally breaking rules, but because they skipped the basics that could have prevented a ransomware attack. 

This isn’t another story about mega-hospitals getting slapped with million-dollar fines. This is about a small practice that probably looks a lot like yours, making mistakes that probably sound familiar, and facing consequences that could easily happen to you.