Compliance & Legal
Roughly 300 health care systems, children's hospitals and federally qualified health centers have set up these programs.
ERISA laws do not apply to church-established health systems, even if the plans were established and maintained by the hospitals, Justices say.
Legal documents filed with the state last week from the patient's attorney allege her neurosurgeon operated unnecessarily on the tumor.
Andover Subacute and Rehab Center Services Two billed Medicaid for services that did not meet federal care standards, DOJ said.
The Justice Department has also accused giant insurer UnitedHealth Group of overcharging the federal government by more than $1 billion by improperly jacking up risk scores over the course of a decade.
Even though it didn't identify any actual misuse of the information, Beacon is offering affected patients access to free identity monitoring.
Its affiliated home care agency had submitted claim forms on which an employee had essentially cut-and-pasted the required physician signatures.
State's Department of Medical Assistance Services didn't meet federal security requirements, which could have compromised the integrity of system.
Settlement stems from 2014 OCR complaint that staff member from Spencer Cox Center disclosed a patient's protected health information.
Fake visiting physician's practice actually involved patient marketers using paid "patients" to get prescriptions for controlled substances.