
tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 24
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When a Midwestern physician retired in 2008, the last thing she expected to find on her doorstep were thousands of patient records just sitting on her residential property—but that finding prompted an $800,000 judgment against the entity that dumped them there. The physician hired Parkview Health System, Inc. to transition her patients to new providers when she retired in 2008, according to a June 23 news release on the topic. But instead of filing the physician’s records in a safe, HIPAA-compliant location, Parkview took the 5,000 to 8,000 records and left them in cardboard...
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