Compliance & Legal
Chicago-based Saint Anthony sued Leapfrog in November for giving the hospital an inaccurate grade -- but Leapfrog claims the grade is based on self-submitted data the hospital failed to review.
Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio is notifying 28,434 patients whose sensitive information was on the stolen laptop, local report says.
DOJ spokesperson said penalty could have been much higher if hospital had not fully cooperated with their year-plus investigation.
As the popularity, and profitability, of urine tests has expanded, so has the potential for fraud and malpractice.
Local report says lawsuit alleges the hospitals made false claims in order to snag federal grant money for electronic health record systems.
Hospitals and other providers spend nearly $39 billion a year solely on the administrative activities associated with regulatory compliance, AHA says.
Cottage Health breached the data of over 50,000 patients in 2013 and 2015 after leaving a server unencrypted.
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.
Resolution 232, adopted this week by the AMA House of Delegates, argues for the legal designation of healthcare facilities as sensitive locations.