Kansas hospital pays $250K to settle charges it falsified EHR security risk assessment

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https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/kansas-hospital-pays-250k-settle-charges-it-falsified-ehr-security-risk-assessment

By Nathan Eddy
Healthcare IT News
June 03, 2019

Coffey Health System, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Kansas, has agreed 
to pay a $250,000 settlement for alleged False Claims Act violations related to 
its meaningful use attestation.


WHY IT MATTERS

Specifically, the U.S. Department of Justice charged that the hospital falsely 
attested that it had conducted the necessary security assessment to comply with 
the federal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program.

Back in 2012 and 2013 the hospital falsely claimed it had undergone the 
security analysis required to qualify for the meaningful use program, which was 
established in 2009 by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The health system was found to have submitted false claims to the Medicare and 
Medicaid Programs to obtain the payments granted by the incentive program.

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