Beth Jones Sanborn
Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio is notifying 28,434 patients whose sensitive information was on the stolen laptop, local report says.
Systems say together they will form the 10th largest nonprofit integrated health system in the country.
DOJ spokesperson said penalty could have been much higher if hospital had not fully cooperated with their year-plus investigation.
The system's quarter closed with a $60 million reduction in net income to $227.6 million from $287.6 this time last year, financial documents show.
Layoffs for workers in Delaware follow hundreds in Phoenix earlier this month after loss of TriCare contract.
So far this in this year, 2.78 million consumers have signed up for health plans.
Expensive branded drugs, diagnostic testing and imaging for some patients prior to low-risk surgery and population-based vitamin D screening all make the list.
Local report says lawsuit alleges the hospitals made false claims in order to snag federal grant money for electronic health record systems.
Expert says failure to address and punish the behavior, regardless of the perpetrator's status, can have big costs.
American Medical Association, the American Epilepsy Society and CancerCare have all officially severed ties with the startup amid fraud allegations.