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Court: $1B Medicare fraud lawsuit to proceed in MN
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Utah hospitals’ Olympic preps can be terror primer
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Errors in New England strike two hospitals
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Guest Column: It’s a raid! What to do when the feds are at your door
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Leapfrog Group has a new partner on road to safety
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Health plan association targets malpractice reform
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Sky high and rising: Limits sought for malpractice in Pennsylvania
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HIPAA Regulatory Alert: Multifaceted approach builds compliance culture
One of the most difficult challenges in a health care setting is creating or changing culture, and this certainly applies to HIPAA compliance. Experts agree that engendering a culture of compliance requires a delicate combination of several strategies: -
Legal Review & Commentary: Improper blood transfusion leads to $35.3M settlement
A pre-eclamptic pregnant woman developed HELLP syndrome. Treatment for the syndrome was unsuccessful, and an emergency cesarean was conducted when the baby was at 27 weeks gestation. At birth, the child was diagnosed as intrauterine growth-retarded and was placed in the neonatal ICU. The child was later diagnosed with anemia and, in light of multiple blood draws, required a blood transfusion -
Legal Review & Commentary: Failure to review contact lens solution instructions leads to $3.5M NY settlement
A man went to the eye clinic at a local hospital complaining of chronic blurry vision in his left eye. The man was seen by a resident who removed the man's left eye contact lens and placed it in a contact lens case containing contact lens solution. When the contact lens was placed back into the man's left eye, the man felt a burning sensation. The resident removed the contact lens, but the man was thereafter diagnosed with corneal damage and superficial punctate keratitis. Within a few months, the man went completely blind.