An Indiana health system may move forward with a lawsuit to collect $80,000 from a former employee whose actions allegedly led the state to accuse it of violating a federal patient privacy law, a state appeals court said.
Franciscan Alliance Inc.'s lawsuit against Christina Padgett was filed within the state’s two-year limit for noncontract employment-related claims, the Indiana Court of Appeals said.
The clock began running when Indiana sued Franciscan in August 2018 for allegedly violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, not in March 2014 when the system learned of Padgett’s allegedly unauthorized access to a particular patient’s ...
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