Five details:
1. Two former employees of Grants Pass, Ore.-based Asante Three Rivers Medical Center have been charged with embezzling $33,000 from the hospital between May and September 2020.
2. The pair allegedly hatched a scheme to submit fraudulent reimbursement requests that became the subject of an internal investigation.
3. The Grants Pass Police Department received information about the incident on Oct. 4 and interviewed the employees shortly thereafter, according to a report from NBC affiliate KOBI5.
4. Asante Three Rivers Medical Center terminated the two employees after concluding its investigation.
5. The incident didn’t compromise protected health information, according to a statement from the hospital.
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