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Hospital pays $750K to settle data breach of missing tapes
South Shore Hospital agreed to pay $750,000 to settle claims that the Massachusetts hospital violated state and federal law by allegedly failing to protect the health information of more than 800,000 individuals, the Massachusetts attorney general's office announced.
Massachusetts Blues reconsider pay for directors
Under pressure from state Attorney General Martha Coakley, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts said it will suspend payments to its board of directors and may also change its legal structure,
Narrow network plans may help insurers' bottom line
An increasingly popular way to control rising healthcare costs has become so-called narrow network plans in which businesses and individuals get a sizeable break on their premiums by agreeing to only
Blue Cross CEO's $11M payout is under review
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts provided former CEO Cleve L. Killingsworth with quite a hefty severance package and now the state's attorney general is investigating. Killingsworth's
Case not closed on Beth Israel's Levy after all; another Massachusetts exec gets jail time
It turns out that the matter of the now infamous Boston CEO's "improper relationship" with a former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center employee is not "closed" after all, recent reports in the
Republican victory in Mass. threatens health reform plans
After watching many months of the health reform vehicle hugging twisty roads over steep mountains, nearly tipping over the edge on countless occasions, one could be forgiven for thinking that we'd
Nail-biter Mass. Senate race will influence reform outcome
It's down to the wire, and it's still not clear whether Senate Democratic candidate Martha Coakley or Republican candidate Scott Brown will take the seat vacated by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. The
MA AG cracks down on non-profit health exec compensation
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has kicked off a crackdown on the compensation practice of non-profit healthcare organizations, notably compensation received by directors. While the
