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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.
Medical data protections ramp up
Government enforcers are taking a stronger stance on healthcare providers, organizations and insurance companies that leak medical information. Often cited as the key to reducing healthcare costs,
Hospital hit with $341k overpayment for flawed billing, coding practices
Sure, Medicare’s maze of billing and coding requirements are difficult to understand. And sometimes your software vendor doesn’t do a good job at helping you navigate all the twists and
Poor oversight of Medicare billing, coding costs hospital $341,000
Sure, Medicare’s maze of billing and coding requirements is difficult to understand. And sometimes your software vendor doesn’t quite keep up with all the twists and turns. But those
Backup data on 800,000 people lost forever
South Shore Hospital will not send letters to alert 800,000 people that their personal, health and/or financial information may have been on computer back-up files that disappeared in July, according
Hospital loses data files for 800,000 patients
A third-party firm contracted out by a Massachusetts hospital to destroy sensitive computer files cannot confirm that it wiped them clean, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of
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
