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LifePoint Health promotes deputy CCO to chief compliance officer
LifePoint Health announced Deputy Chief Compliance Officer Tizgel High has been promoted to chief compliance officer.
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ArticleReport: Pandemic fuels goodwill impairment spike in 2020
Goodwill impairment recorded by U.S. public companies more than doubled in 2020, but the total still fell short of the figure observed at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, according to the latest annual report from Kroll.
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ArticleBaxter to pay $18M for foreign exchange accounting violations
American multinational healthcare product company Baxter International agreed to pay $18 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting violations related to the recording of foreign currency transactions.
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Stellar Health tabs chief compliance officer
Healthcare technology company Stellar Health has named Samantha Kelen chief compliance officer.
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ArticleFalse Claims Act-related settlements top $5.6B in 2021
False Claims Act settlements totaled more than $5.6 billion in the past federal fiscal year, the second-largest amount ever collected by the government in FCA actions in one year, according to the Department of Justice.
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ArticleSupreme Court strikes down OSHA vaccine policy for large employers
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses, striking down an emergency temporary standard from OSHA that had technically been in effect since Monday.
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3M legal chief to join Medtronic as general counsel
Medical device company Medtronic announced the appointment of Ivan Fong as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary.
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Balt appoints chief legal and compliance officer
Neurovascular device designer and manufacturer Balt has appointed Jeffrey Sachs as chief legal and compliance officer.
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ArticleAmerican Renal Associates to pay $2M in accounting fraud case
American Renal Associates Holdings has agreed to pay $2 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of accounting fraud allegedly perpetrated by three former financial executives at the dialysis provider.
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OraSure Technologies hires general counsel, CCO
Home diagnostic testing company OraSure Technologies hired Agnieszka Gallagher as its general counsel, chief compliance officer, and secretary to replace the retiring Jack Jerrett.
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Zimmer Biomet chief accounting officer to depart
Medical device company Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced the departure of Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer Carrie Nichol, effective Nov. 26.
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FTC marks revived ‘prior approval’ merger stance with proposed limits on DaVita
The Federal Trade Commission proposed 10-year acquisition restrictions on dialysis service provider DaVita under the agency’s newly reinstated “prior approval” policy aimed at curbing anticompetitive mergers.
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Apria appoints chief accounting officer
Home medical equipment and supply company Apria has appointed Christopher Lee to the newly created position of chief accounting officer.
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ArticleUpdated PhRMA Code addresses company-sponsored speaker programs
New voluntary standards issued by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America will soon take effect offering guidance related to company-sponsored speaker programs.
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ArticleCompliance takeaways from FDA’s final ‘intended use’ rule
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “intended use” final rule reaffirms the agency’s wide latitude of discretion in establishing an off-label use case against pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
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ArticleNeed to know: Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos trial set to begin
Elizabeth Holmes’s legacy is on the line, as the long-awaited trial of the disgraced founder and CEO of blood-testing company Theranos begins Wednesday.
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Lineage Cell Therapeutics names general counsel
Clinical-stage biotechnology company Lineage Cell Therapeutics has named George A. Samuel III as general counsel and corporate secretary.
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Monogram Health names chief compliance officer
Monogram Health, a kidney disease benefit management and care delivery company, announced the appointment of Shawn Verner as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
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ArticleSEC fines Healthcare Services Group $6M over contingency reporting lapses
Healthcare Services Group agreed to pay $6 million as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for contingency reporting failures that led to accounting and disclosure violations.
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ArticleQ&A: How Kaiser Permanente has handled change brought by COVID-19
Vanessa Benavides, chief compliance and privacy officer and senior VP at Kaiser Permanente, shares how the company adjusted its policies and procedures because of COVID-19 and the lessons she learned along the way.