By Harris Meyer | December 20, 2018 A physician independent practice association in Tennessee has won a $58 million class-action judgment against Wellmont Health System based on allegations that the system tried to undermine the IPA and signed payer contracts outside the physician network. Highlands Physicians, a 1,500-physician group based in Kingsport, Tenn., won the verdict Tuesday following a 13-day […]
Month: December 2018
Optum drops Nevada clinics from DaVita buyout amid antitrust scrutiny
By Jessie Bekker / Las Vegas Review-JournalDecember 20, 2018 – 6:20 pm UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is dropping plans to purchase the DaVita Medical Group physician clinics in Nevada after the Federal Trade Commission investigated the deal’s compliance with antitrust regulations. DaVita, in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, indicated that while Optum will […]
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Colorado hospital failed to terminate former employee’s access to electronic protected health information
Pagosa Springs Medical Center (PSMC) has agreed to pay $111,400 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to adopt a substantial corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. PSMC is a critical […]
Florida contractor physicians’ group shares protected health information with unknown vendor without a business associate agreement
December 4, 2018 Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to adopt a substantial corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security […]