Who was sanctioned, and for what?

Hospital staff opened a colleague's electronic health record to organise duty rosters during Covid rather than for treatment purposes. Technical barriers limiting access to treating staff were lacking; the Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) imposed 24,000 EUR (Provvedimento No. 616).

Authority / court

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Area of law

Data protection · Employee data

Legal basis

Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, b, c, f, Art. 9, 25, 32 DSGVO; Art. 75 Codice privacy; Linee guida dossier sanitario

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Published

11 Sep 2026

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The Houston laboratory, its former CEO Michael Stewart and the businessman Harold Shatz allegedly paid kickbacks and billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary genetic tests. The three settlements add up to 36.4 million USD; the laboratory is subject to a Corporate Integrity Agreement.

Authority / court

U.S. Department of Justice

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Commercial bribery

Legal basis

Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Liability of senior managers

Former CEO pays under a separate settlement.

Original amount 36,400,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 30 Jul 2026.

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In summer 2025, an attacker gained access to the private hospital's electronic patient record system and obtained data on 524,867 patients and 202,246 trusted persons. There was no VPN or multi-factor authentication for external users, no appropriate access control and no detection of suspicious activity; the trusted persons were not notified. France's data protection authority (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés, CNIL) imposed a fine of 500,000 EUR (SAN-2026-009).

Authority / court

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 32, Art. 34

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Published

3 Sep 2026

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The Florida laboratory provided referring physicians with consulting services below market value and paid independent consultants referral-based remuneration for recruiting physicians. Following a self-disclosure, NeoGenomics paid 9,813,260 USD.

Authority / court

U.S. Department of Justice

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Commercial bribery

Legal basis

Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Mitigating circumstances

Self-disclosure of the remuneration arrangements.

Original amount 9,813,260 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Jul 2026.

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From May to the end of August 2024, the public hospital accidentally published on its website a surgery list containing patients' telephone numbers, illnesses and planned procedures; a member of the public found the document via Google. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority imposed a total of 25,000 EUR: 10,000 EUR for inadequate security, 2,000 EUR for the late notification, 10,000 EUR for failing to notify the data subjects and 3,000 EUR for missing contact details of the data protection officer (DPO).

Authority / court

Αρχή Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Hellenic Data Protection Authority)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. f, 32 Abs. 1, 33 Abs. 1, 34 Abs. 1, 12, 13 i. V. m. 37 (Entscheidung 13/2026)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

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On application by its competitor Ramus, the Комисия за защита на конкуренцията (Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition, KZK) established that the laboratory had offered packages of medical laboratory tests free of charge nationwide over extended periods (only against a fee of 2 leva for taking blood) – conduct shown by no other market participant outside joint campaigns. It found an infringement of the general clause of unfair competition law (Art. 29 ZZK – Bulgarian Protection of Competition Act) and imposed 0.3% of 2024 turnover, i.e. 52,096.55 EUR. Appeals have been lodged against the decision.

Authority / court

Комисия за защита на конкуренцията (КЗК, Bulgarische Wettbewerbskommission)

Area of law

Competition law

Legal basis

Art. 29 ZZK (Generalklausel unlauterer Wettbewerb)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

under appeal

Sector

Healthcare

Published

2 Jul 2026

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In the teaching hospital's virology laboratory, the lid of a centrifuge fell on an employee who had to hold it open by hand because of a defective gas spring; she was seriously injured. Maintenance reports from 2023 and 2024 had already called for the spring to be replaced. Fine of CA$65,000 plus victim fine surcharge.

Authority / court

Provincial Offences Court Hamilton (Ermittlung: Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development)

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Workplace safety and accidents

Legal basis

Section 25(1)(b) Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Mitigating circumstances

Guilty plea; repair two days after the accident.

Published

21 Jul 2026

Original amount 65,000 CAD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 18 Jun 2026.

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The Arkansas pathology laboratory, its management company and the owners Kevin Hannah, Donell Burkett and Daniel Hunter Pledger allegedly granted unlawful kickbacks and ordered medically unnecessary tests. Together they paid 30 million USD; the laboratory entered into a Corporate Integrity Agreement.

Authority / court

U.S. Department of Justice

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Commercial bribery

Legal basis

Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Liability of senior managers

The owners contribute personally as parties to the settlement.

Original amount 30,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Jun 2026.

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The non-profit hospital group Ascension wanted to acquire AmSurg for 3.9 billion USD. Owing to overlaps in outpatient surgery in five regions, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires the sale of seven AmSurg centres to SC Affiliates and a gastroenterology practice, as well as transitional support.

Authority / court

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Area of law

Competition law · Merger control

Legal basis

Section 7 Clayton Act; Section 5 FTC Act (Consent Order)

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Employees

10,000 or more

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The Californian provider of mobile PET scans allegedly paid referring cardiologists excessive fees for supervising the examinations in order to secure referrals. The settlement of 8,334,350.71 USD plus revenue-based payments is based on ability to pay; in addition, there is a Corporate Integrity Agreement.

Authority / court

U.S. Department of Justice / U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Commercial bribery

Legal basis

Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Original amount 8,334,350.71 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 30 Apr 2026.

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Four laboratories and their association coordinated negotiations on prices with health insurers, coordinated in tenders, exchanged sensitive information and allocated customers. At first instance, the Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, PMÚ SR) imposed 14,551,800 EUR and three-year procurement bans; Unilabs received a substantially reduced fine as leniency applicant and under a settlement.

Authority / court

Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR)

Area of law

Competition law · Cartels and collusion

Legal basis

Slowakisches Wettbewerbsschutzgesetz (Kartellverbot)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Unilabs: leniency reduction (50%) and settlement (a further 30%).

Published

12 May 2026

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The starting point was a complaint about incomplete disclosure of patient data; the clinic left several requests from the supervisory authority unanswered. The Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate, AKI) ordered it to revise its contracts with Align Technology (Invisalign) with regard to the GDPR roles (Art. 26/28 GDPR), to adapt the consent form and the privacy notices in accordance with Art. 7, 9, 13 and 14 GDPR and to publish them in Estonian; non-compliance is subject to a penalty payment of 1,000 EUR per item.

Authority / court

Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (AKI)

Area of law

Data protection · Data processors

Legal basis

§ 56 Abs. 1 IKS; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. d DSGVO i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, 7, 9, 13, 14, 26, 28 DSGVO

Action

Order

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

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A general practitioner who had no longer been treating the complainant since January 2023 accessed his health data (findings, prescriptions) on the national e-health platform EESZT a total of 47 times via his practice software until August 2024 and did not respond to an access request. The Hungarian data protection authority (Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság, NAIH) found infringements of Art. 5(2), 6(1), 9(2), 12(2) and 15(1) GDPR, ordered compliance with the access request and imposed 500,000 HUF.

Authority / court

Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH)

Area of law

Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency

Legal basis

DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 2, 6 Abs. 1, 9 Abs. 2, 12 Abs. 2, 15 Abs. 1 (NAIH-273-7/2026)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Published

20 Mar 2026

Original amount 500,000 HUF, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Mar 2026.

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In parallel with the US declination, the PNF concluded a CJIP with the US subsidiary of the French medical technology manufacturer for 1,765,493 EUR (after crediting the US disgorgement) and a three-year AFA compliance programme. The case arose from Balt SAS's voluntary self-disclosure of 22 May 2023 concerning offences committed by a former manager of the acquired company Blockade Medical.

Authority / court

Parquet national financier (PNF); Validierung durch den Präsidenten des Tribunal judiciaire de Paris

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials

Legal basis

Art. 41-1-2 Code de procédure pénale (CJIP); aktive und passive Bestechung von Amtsträgern

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Employees

250 to 999

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Voluntary self-disclosure to the PNF and the DOJ; coordinated resolution with crediting.

Liability of senior managers

The CJIP does not address the criminal liability of natural persons.

Published

19 Mar 2026

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Through sham consultancy agreements, fictitious invoices and purported bonus payments, around 602,000 USD in bribes flowed from 2017 to 2023 via a Belgian consultant to a physician in a senior position at a French public hospital, so that the hospital would purchase embolisation coils from Balt. The DOJ declined to prosecute on account of voluntary self-disclosure, cooperation and remediation (declination of 17 March 2026); Balt is disgorging 1,214,797 USD in profits.

Authority / court

U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division, Fraud Section)

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials

Legal basis

FCPA; Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (Declination)

Action

Disgorgement of profits

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Voluntary self-disclosure (including to the French national financial prosecutor's office, PNF), full cooperation, timely remediation, disciplinary measures, parallel resolution in France.

Liability of senior managers

A former manager of the US subsidiary (David Ferrera) and a consultant (Marc Tilman) were charged with FCPA violations and money laundering.

Published

19 Mar 2026

Original amount 1,214,797 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 17 Mar 2026.

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Between January and June 2023, the Sarasota laboratory paid independent marketers to steer laboratory samples from Medicare beneficiaries to it. It self-disclosed the conduct, cooperated extensively and paid 980,000 USD.

Authority / court

U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida

Area of law

Bribery and corruption · Commercial bribery

Legal basis

Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 ff.)

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

final

Sector

Healthcare

Mitigating circumstances

Voluntary self-disclosure, detailed disclosure and cooperation.

Original amount 980,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 5 Mar 2026.

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The clinic’s managing director himself reported that a former employee had copied contact details and patient records of all patients and poached them for a new clinic. In the subsequent investigation, the clinic did not fully answer the requests of the Romanian data protection authority (ANSPDCP) despite a reprimand and an order; the authority therefore imposed 10,190 lei (2,000 EUR). Date = publication of the press release; according to the authority, the investigation was concluded in February 2026.

Authority / court

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP)

Area of law

Data protection

Legal basis

Art. 58 Abs. 1, Art. 83 Abs. 5 lit. e DSGVO

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Published

20 Feb 2026

Original amount 10,190 RON, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Feb 2026.

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Following the tragedy at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival in 2025, 36 employees of three health authorities accessed patient data of 16 admitted persons without authorisation in 71 instances. Those affected were not informed without undue delay; the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC BC) made nine recommendations, including automated access monitoring and deterrent disciplinary measures.

Authority / court

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC BC)

Area of law

Data protection · Data breaches and data security

Legal basis

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) BC, s. 25.1

Action

Other

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

Appropriate safeguards were in place; the authorities responded quickly and accepted all recommendations.

Published

18 Feb 2026

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The Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district administrative authority) penalised the managing director of a Tyrolean hospital operator because in September 2022 physicians had not been granted sufficient rest periods after extended shifts and maximum duty hours had been exceeded; the Regional Administrative Court set aside several counts because the time clock data were said to have been incorrect. On an official appeal on points of law (Amtsrevision) by the Minister of Labour, the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Administrative Court, VwGH) partly set aside that ruling: witness statements alone are not sufficient to rebut time clock records.

Authority / court

Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VwGH); Strafbehörde: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Innsbruck

Area of law

Health and safety and employment law · Working time

Legal basis

§§ 4 Abs. 4 Z 1, 7 Abs. 3, 11 Abs. 1, 12 Abs. 1 Krankenanstalten-Arbeitszeitgesetz (KA-AZG); § 9 VStG

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Liability of senior managers

Fines imposed on the managing director under commercial law; liability of the company under § 9(7) VStG.

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The two companies colluded in tenders of the General Health Insurance Company for the supply of medicines (2017–2020). For the first time, a cartel was uncovered on the basis of information from a whistleblower; the Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic, PMÚ SR) imposed 7,595,200 EUR and a one-year procurement ban on PHOENIX and 201,800 EUR and a three-year procurement ban on TRANSMEDIC (first instance).

Authority / court

Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky (PMÚ SR)

Area of law

Competition law · Cartels and collusion

Legal basis

Slowakisches Wettbewerbsschutzgesetz (Submissionsabsprache)

Action

Fine

Status of proceedings

unknown

Sector

Healthcare

Culpability

intentional

Mitigating circumstances

PHOENIX: settlement with a 30% fine reduction and a shortened procurement ban.

Published

24 Feb 2026

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