University of Chicago Medical Center and Google filed motions to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that alleges the hospital violated HIPAA by sharing thousands of patients' health records with the technology giant without properly de-identifying the data, Gov Info Security reports.
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A group of participants in Community Health System's 401(k) plan sued the Franklin, Tenn.-based system and record keeper Principal Financial Group, according to Pensions & Investments.
San Francisco and Santa Clara counties in California filed a joint motion seeking to temporarily halt the Trump administration's "public charge" rule while legal challenges to the rule are decided by the courts, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
An armed forces medical examiner ruled a retired Air Force veteran's death a homicide, the second such case identified amid a series of 11 suspicious deaths at the Clarksburg, W.Va.-based Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center, according to USA Today.
HHS' Office for Civil Rights issued a notice of violation against the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington for forcing a nurse to participate in an elective abortion, despite the nurse's moral objection to the procedure.
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Aetna has apologized to Kansas lawmakers after the state threatened to terminate the Hartford, Conn.-based insurer's Medicaid contract for failing on the $1 billion annual agreement, according to the Leavenworth Times.
Three physicians and a cardiac center agreed to collectively pay $1.1 million to settle allegations of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act in a scheme related to genetic testing, reports KNOE, an ABC News affiliate in Monroe,…
A federal judge has denied Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health System's request for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging the health system violated federal race discrimination law, according to Law360.
The former director of security for a Georgia hospital has been indicted on 19 charges after allegedly stealing guns the hospital paid for and selling them for profit, according to the Department of Justice.
Lawyers filed a notice of claim against Clarksburg, W.Va.-based Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center, alleging the hospital failed to protect a now deceased patient from "foreseeable harm" after at least ten other patients died under similar circumstances, reports WBOY…