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Expect no mercy when you have a written policy for encryption, then suffer a breach because you fail to follow it.
Some doctors come to investigators’ attention because a whistleblower cries foul. In other cases, a routine audit expands into a fraud investigation. But the recent sentencing of a Bowling Green, Ky. physician was triggered by a couple of low-revenue tests.
A former neurologist who has billed himself as a "world leading physician" is heading to prison, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a June 8 press release. 
A Staten Island doctor, the latest convict in the Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services kickback case, gets four years and will pay $127,500 after being found guilty of taking bribes to send his bloodwork to the Jersey lab.

An Opp, Ala.-based medical practice will pay a hefty sum to settle allegations that the practice violated the anti-kickback statute and the Stark physician self-referral rule.

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