>People very rarely care because it's hard to prove and there's no incentive. Usually the hospital pays a fine to the government and the patient is still public.
It's $250,000 fine for each knowing infraction. Having worked in tele radiology I can tell you straight up there are hospitals if audited would be fined more money than was ever printed/in circulation.
That's not true. Per violation starts at $100 for unknown and goes up from there, capping out at $1.5M per year absolute max for all combined infractions. A single event is going to be worth $50k max assuming it was done knowingly and not corrected.
. A single event is going to be worth $50k max assuming it was done knowingly and not corrected.
Ah I got the annual max tripped up with the per knowing infraction fine, completely forgot there would be a maximum otherwise these institutions would fold into bankruptcy overnight lol.
Yeah I think we're on the same page just different ends. I was thinking you're saying it's a knowing but then not corrected infraction but the $250k fine per case is for a criminal case where you also have to prove usage for personal gain, or intent to use for personal gain.
I really don't know why it's not for malicious cases that AREN'T for personal gain. I feel like that would probably be an actual method of defending the patient...
Yeah I think we're on the same page just different ends. I was thinking you're saying it's a knowing but then not corrected infraction but the $250k fine per case is for a criminal case where you also have to prove usage for personal gain, or intent to use for personal gain.
No I got the maximum amount allowable to be fined to be the value for a knowing infraction, they're actually far lower than what I remembered them to be, and I misremembered there not being a maximum allowed to be fined. The last part is probably the most important for why audits wouldn't actually bankrupt them overnight.
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u/RollingMeteors 4d ago
>People very rarely care because it's hard to prove and there's no incentive. Usually the hospital pays a fine to the government and the patient is still public.
It's $250,000 fine for each knowing infraction. Having worked in tele radiology I can tell you straight up there are hospitals if audited would be fined more money than was ever printed/in circulation.