No news is good news.
Especially for hospitals in the middle of the opioid epidemic.
Recently, the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) agreed to a civil penalty in the amount of $4.3 million for failing to prevent opioid drug diversion and federal recordkeeping violations as a result of a DEA investigation. The headline from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan read: “Eastern District of Michigan Announces Record-setting Hospital Drug Diversion Civil Penalty Settlement With the University of Michigan Health System.”
This past May, Effingham Health System (EHS) in Georgia agreed to pay the U.S. government $4.1 million for failing to prevent opioid drug diversion and federal recordkeeping violations as a result of a DEA investigation. The press release read: “Southern District Of Georgia Announces Largest Hospital Drug Diversion Civil Penalty Settlement in U.S. History.”
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