All Healthcare articles – Page 14
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ArticleNeed to know: Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos trial set to begin
Elizabeth Holmes’s legacy is on the line, as the long-awaited trial of the disgraced founder and CEO of blood-testing company Theranos begins Wednesday.
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Lineage Cell Therapeutics names general counsel
Clinical-stage biotechnology company Lineage Cell Therapeutics has named George A. Samuel III as general counsel and corporate secretary.
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Monogram Health names chief compliance officer
Monogram Health, a kidney disease benefit management and care delivery company, announced the appointment of Shawn Verner as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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ArticleSEC fines Healthcare Services Group $6M over contingency reporting lapses
Healthcare Services Group agreed to pay $6 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for contingency reporting failures that led to accounting and disclosure violations.
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ArticleQ&A: How Kaiser Permanente has handled change brought by COVID-19
Vanessa Benavides, chief compliance and privacy officer and senior VP at Kaiser Permanente, shares how the company adjusted its policies and procedures because of COVID-19 and the lessons she learned along the way.
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Covetrus adds new chief accounting officer
Covetrus, a global animal health technology and services company, announced the appointment of Drew Coxhead as vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer.
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ArticleQ&A: Cigna’s approach to SEC human capital disclosure requirements
Julia Brncic, senior vice president, chief counsel and corporate secretary at Cigna, shares how the global health insurance company is complying with new human capital disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K.
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Western Dental names chief compliance officer
Dental and orthodontics firm Western Dental has named Eric Royal chief compliance officer.
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Avanos Medical appoints general counsel
Medical technology company Avanos Medical has appointed Moji James as senior vice president and general counsel.
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Medtronic adds accounting chief; general counsel to retire
Medical device company Medtronic announced General Counsel Bradley Lerman will retire at the end of the year. The company also named Jennifer Kirk to the new role of principal accounting officer, global controller and chief accounting officer.
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Trinity Health tabs chief integrity and compliance officer
Trinity Health announced the appointment of Dawn Geisert as senior vice president and chief integrity and compliance officer.
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ArticleGDPR fines by industry: Telecoms far outpace Big Tech
Since the GDPR came into force in 2018, Big Tech firms have not been on the receiving end of fines as frequently as expected. Meanwhile, other industries have shown to be more prone to data privacy violations, namely telecommunications.
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ArticleSpecial report: Compliance, infosec & battling cyber threats
LifePoint Health’s VP for Compliance Program Operations/Chief Privacy Officer Ellen Hunt and VP/CISO Andy Heins share how they work ”hand in glove” to protect their company’s data from bad actors.
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OPKO Health chief accounting officer resigns
Diagnostic test company OPKO Health announced the resignation of Rulfo Hernandez as chief accounting officer, treasurer and global corporate controller.
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ArticleClover Health facing SEC probe over short-seller report
The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into Clover Health Investments in response to scathing allegations made against the Medicare provider by short-seller Hindenburg Research.
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Athenahealth settles kickback case for $18.25M
The Department of Justice announced an $18.25 million settlement with electronic health records technology vendor athenahealth for allegedly paying unlawful kickbacks to generate sales.
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ArticleExcellus Health Plan fined $5.1M for 2015 data breach
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights fined Excellus Health Plan $5.1 million for failures relating to a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 9.3 million individuals.
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ArticleAll signs point to aggressive consumer protection under Biden
Consumer protection initiatives are expected to be a major area of focus for President-elect Joe Biden, who is widely anticipated to breathe new life into the enforcement priorities of federal and state agencies with such powers.
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ArticleRare OIG Special Fraud Alert cautions the use of speaker programs
In a rare move, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General issued a Special Fraud Alert warning of inherent fraud and abuse risks associated with speaker programs.
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Conversion Labs names chief compliance officer, general counsel
Conversion Labs, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine and wellness company, has appointed Eric Yecies to the new position of chief compliance officer and general counsel.