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In 2018, a medical billing company called Advanced Care Hospitalists paid $500,000 to settle with HHS after a business associate they'd hired
A front-desk employee at a Florida clinic bills Medicare for physical therapy sessions that never happened. A physician upcodes patient visits — documenting complex evaluations when
A $4.3 Million Fine Started with a Missing Definition In 2016, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing
A cloud storage vendor loses a laptop containing 20,000 patient records. The hospital that hired them gets the breach notification letter. The vendor insists
I once watched a hospital administrator spell it "HIPPA" on a slide deck in front of 200 employees. Nobody corrected her. That moment
A physician in Texas billed Medicare for over 5,000 hours of home health services in a single year. That's roughly 14 hours
A $4.7 Billion Problem Hiding in Your Organization's Blind Spots In 2023, the Department of Justice recovered over $2.68 billion in
Last year, a solo-practice dermatologist in Connecticut called me in a panic. She'd just received a letter from the Office for Civil Rights
A hospital in Texas once faxed a patient's psychiatric records to the wrong physician's office — a solo practitioner across town who
A $4.75 Million Mistake That Started With One Misunderstood Rule In 2022, Memorial Hermann Health System paid a $2.4 million settlement to HHS
A $16 Million Wake-Up Call That Traces Back to 1996 In 2018, Anthem Inc. wrote a check to the U.S. Department of Health and
A small dental practice in Georgia gets hit with a $70,000 penalty because a front-desk employee left a box of patient files on a
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