Day PitneySightLine Health, LLC, a Texas-based radiation therapy company, has agreed to pay the federal government up to $11.5 million to resolve allegations that the company…
CenterLight Healthcare Reaches $10M Medicaid Fraud Settlement
CenterLight Healthcare, a managed long-term care organization that provides and coordinates healthcare services in the New York City area, has agreed to a $10.3 million…
Abiomed Reaches $3.1 Million Settlement for Doctor Meals
Abiomed, Inc. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve allegations that the company treated physicians to lavish meals at some of the country’s most…
EmblemHealth Agrees to Data Breach Settlement
New York insurer EmblemHealth has agreed to a $575,000 settlement with the New York Attorney General’s Office over the disclosure of more than 80,000 Social…
On February 13, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a $100,000 settlement with the court-appointed receiver of FileFax Inc., a defunct…
Multiple Data Breaches Lead to $3.5 Million HIPAA Settlement
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle potential HIPAA violations relating to the impermissible disclosure of electronic protected…
On January 25, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), through Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, issued a memorandum limiting the use of agency guidance documents…
Connecticut Supreme Court Recognizes Common-Law Duty of Confidentiality in Physician-Patient Relationship
On January 16, the Connecticut Supreme Court released its ruling in Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C., a case in which a…
Day Pitney’s December 2017 White Collar Roundup included the following item: Another Guilty Plea in the Compounding Pharmacy Investigation in the Garden State Timothy Frazer,…
Day Pitney’s December 2017 White Collar Roundup included the following item: Guilty Pleas Abound in Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prosecution Joon H. Kim, the Acting…