Is it a romantic comedy? Yes!
Is it a legal thriller? Yes!
Margaret Nicks, a new graduate with a degree in health information management, becomes the Acting Director of Health Information Management at a hospital when the Director suffers a stroke. She quickly finds out that her new duty of getting the hospital HIPAA compliant won’t be easy. But she hires a consultant that she had met at a Cross Country seminar. Follow their struggles with the hospital doctors, staff, and administration to get them into compliance. They are attracted to each other, but legal ethics prevents him from dating her. After the compliance date, a hospital employee commits identity theft and blames it on the hospital’s failure to enforce HIPAA. Management tries to hang Margaret out to dry to save the hospital administrator and the governing board from liability. The U.S. Attorney indicts her under the theory of corporate criminal liability. So she hires the consultant, who is also an experienced defense attorney. Can he keep her out of federal prison? Will they end up an item after she is no longer his client?
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