Compliance & Legal
Martin Shkreli, the Turing Pharmaceutical CEO reviled by many for hike 5,000 percent price hike of AIDS drug Daraprim, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud, according to several published reports.
In 2013, the electronic protected health information of about 90,000 individuals was accessed after an employee downloaded an email attachment that contained malicious malware.
The owner of an Illinois home healthcare company is facing conspiracy and fraud charges after being indicted in an alleged kickback scheme that defrauded Medicare for at least $450,000.
The Miami owner of eight pharmacies will spend nine years in prison, the Department of Justice announced this week, for is part in a healthcare fraud that saw him spending the money he scammed on luxury cars for himself and his family.
The Justice Department raked in more than $3.5 billion in 2015 in settlements and judgements from civil cases under the False Claims Act, including $1.9 billion in healthcare fraud settlements.
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Vallejo, California were recently cited by Cal/OSHA for safety violations after inadequate safety practices resulted in workers being stabbed by needles on multiple occasions.
Triple-S Management Corporation has agreed to settle potential HIPAA violations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human services to the tune of $3.5 million, after repeatedly failing to put safeguards in place for its beneficiaries' PHI.
Ten former employees of Progressive Counseling Services LLC, which is based in Virginia Beach, have been convicted and sentenced for their roles in a scheme to defraud the state's Medicaid program by submitting fake claims for mental health services, according to the Norfolk Division of the FBI.
The case hinges on Vermont legislation requiring all administrators of self-insured benefit plans to regularly submit data on medical claims, pharmacy claims, member eligibility, provider and other information for use in the state's unified healthcare database.
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center has settled with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights for potential HIPAA violations related to lax security policies around workstations and medical devices.