Home Health & Hospice Week

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Are Whistleblowers Violating HIPAA Privacy Regulations? One Health Care Provider Tries To Make The Case

If your organization is facing a whis-tleblower lawsuit for violating the False Claims Act, can you accuse the whistleblower employees of violating HIPAA regulations in the course of making their case against you? One health care provider thinks so. Mount Sinai Hospital employees Joseph Gaston and Xiomary Ortiz filed a whistleblower action against the New York City hospital, alleging Medicaid [...]
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