
Advocate Health Care to pay record $5.55M HIPAA settlement
The amount is the largest such settlement to date reached with a single organization, according to HHS.
The amount is the largest such settlement to date reached with a single organization, according to HHS.
The pace of mergers and acquisitions among healthcare giants continues, seemingly unabated, as more systems look for ways to better coordinate care. This time, it’s a merger between Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University Health System in Illinois, a deal that would create a $7 billion, 16-hospital, so-called mega-system, spurred by the well-known shifts across […]