All Healthcare articles – Page 12
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ArticleProposed NIST cybersecurity guide incorporates HIPAA Security Rule
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comment on proposed guidance intended to help healthcare organizations that fall under the regulatory umbrella of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Security Rule.
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Centivo adds general counsel
Centivo, a health plan for self-funded employers, announced the appointment of Tara Johnson as general counsel.
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Versant Health appoints chief compliance and privacy officer
Versant Health, a national managed vision care company and wholly owned subsidiary of MetLife, announced the appointment of Hayley Ellington-Buckles as chief compliance and privacy officer.
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ArticleBiogen discloses $900M agreement in whistleblower kickback suit
Massachusetts-based biotechnology firm Biogen reached a $900 million agreement in principle to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a whistleblower alleging the payment of unlawful kickbacks to physicians.
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ArticleHealth Insurance Innovations, ex-CEO to pay $12M to settle fraud charges
Health Insurance Innovations and its former CEO Gavin Stockwell will pay a total of more than $12 million to settle SEC charges of misrepresenting the robustness of the company’s compliance program and misleading investors about customer complaints.
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Accuray names chief accounting officer
Accuray, a healthcare company offering radiation therapy, announced the appointment of Franco Palomba as vice president, chief accounting officer and controller.
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WellBe Senior Medical appoints chief compliance officer
WellBe Senior Medical announced the appointment of Joshua Aubey as chief compliance officer.
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ArticleGDPR enforcement roundup: Spain stays on Vodafone, record fine in Poland
Vodafone running up its fine total in Spain and a record-setting action against a marketing firm in Poland highlight a roundup of notable enforcements announced under the General Data Protection Regulation during the first five months of 2022.
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Zimmer Biomet names chief accounting officer
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, a global medical technology company, announced the appointment of Paul Stellato as vice president, controller and chief accounting officer.
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Monogram Health appoints chief compliance officer
Monogram Health, an in-home healthcare provider, added Karen Abbott as chief administrative officer and chief compliance officer.
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ArticleQ&A: Compliance Mentor of the Year Mary Shirley
Mary Shirley, head of culture of integrity and compliance education at Fresenius Medical Care, discusses with Compliance Week what mentorship means to her and who has helped her along the way.
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Article‘Trusted partner’ Kelly Maxwell of Dana-Farber named CCO of the Year
Kelly Maxwell can’t cure cancer, but she and her team do their part to help the rest of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute achieve that mission. For her work, Maxwell was named CCO of the Year at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards.
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ArticleCW National 2022 Q&A: Krista Haugner Sieg on engaging compliance training
Krista Haugner Sieg, senior compliance training and communications leader at GE Healthcare, previews her workshop titled, “Making Engagement and Effectiveness a Reality - Building the Right Training for your Employees and Business,” at CW’s National Conference in Washington, D.C. from May 16-18.
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LifePoint Health promotes deputy CCO to chief compliance officer
LifePoint Health announced Deputy Chief Compliance Officer Tizgel High has been promoted to chief compliance officer.
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ArticleReport: Pandemic fuels goodwill impairment spike in 2020
Goodwill impairment recorded by U.S. public companies more than doubled in 2020, but the total still fell short of the figure observed at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, according to the latest annual report from Kroll.
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ArticleBaxter to pay $18M for foreign exchange accounting violations
American multinational healthcare product company Baxter International agreed to pay $18 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting violations related to the recording of foreign currency transactions.
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Stellar Health tabs chief compliance officer
Healthcare technology company Stellar Health has named Samantha Kelen chief compliance officer.
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ArticleFalse Claims Act-related settlements top $5.6B in 2021
False Claims Act settlements totaled more than $5.6 billion in the past federal fiscal year, the second-largest amount ever collected by the government in FCA actions in one year, according to the Department of Justice.
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ArticleSupreme Court strikes down OSHA vaccine policy for large employers
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses, striking down an emergency temporary standard from OSHA that had technically been in effect since Monday.
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3M legal chief to join Medtronic as general counsel
Medical device company Medtronic announced the appointment of Ivan Fong as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary.