Prime admits no wrongdoing and said the settlement was reached “in view of the unnecessary expense to both SRMC and to the taxpayers of the United States.”
The settlement stems from a May 2012 investigation into the hospital, which is in Redding, Calif. The Office of Civil rights investigated the disclosure of a patient’s medical data in 2011, which was allegedly shared in an email with 785 workers.
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