SC Medicaid Call Center Operator to Pay $11.3M for False Claims Act Violations
Conduent State Healthcare, LLC, headquartered in New Jersey, has agreed to pay $11,358,767 to resolve False Claims Act allegations arising from Conduent’s fraudulent reporting of call center performance metrics and…
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Email Account Breaches Reported by Four HIPAA Covered Entities
Four HIPAA-covered entities have recently reported breaches of their email environments: Southern Bone & Joint Specialists in Mississippi, Connally Memorial Medical Center in Texas, Rim Country Health and Rehabilitation in…
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Iowa National Guard Members Rescue 34 NC Nursing Home Residents Isolated by Floodwaters
Members of the Iowa National Guard on Tuesday rescued 34 nursing home residents who were isolated because of floodwaters and storm damage in North Carolina.
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HHS OCR Imposes $240K Civil Monetary Penalty in HIPAA Ransomware Cybersecurity Investigation
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $240,000 civil monetary penalty against Providence Medical Institute in Southern California, concerning potential violations…
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Florida Company Charged with Selling Misbranded N95 Masks During Early COVID-19
A Florida company, and two individuals associated with the company, have been charged and agreed to plead guilty to charges associated with shipping facemasks that were misbranded as N95 respirators,…
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At Asheville’s Mission Hospital, Workers Describe the Dire Conditions after the Storm
Facing what could be months without a steady water supply, the only solution for Mission Hospital was to dig a well. The Asheville, North Carolina, hospital was crippled after fast-moving…
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Florida AG’s Medicaid Fraud Unit Recovers $700K in Multistate Toxicology Lab Case
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured more than $700,000 in a multistate action against Precision Toxicology, LLC d/b/a Precision Diagnostics, Inc. The action comes after allegations that…
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Ransomware Attack Forced Hospitals to Divert Away Ambulances
A major American public healthcare provider based in Lubbock, Texas, was forced to divert patients to other facilities after suffering a ransomware attack.
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Texas Hospital CEO to Pay over $5.3M to Settle Kickback Allegations Involving Laboratory Testing
Former hospital chief executive officer (CEO) Jeffrey Madison, of Georgetown, Texas, has agreed to pay $5,343,630 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act involving illegal payments to physicians for…
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EEOC Sues Surgery Center Company for Disability and Age Discrimination
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has charged that a Northern Virginia company which operates outpatient surgery centers violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Age Discrimination…
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