CHS to pay $5M in data breach state settlement

Franklin-based Community Health Systems has agreed to pay $5 million in a multistate settlement related to its 2014 data breach that impacted 6.1 million patients, including nearly 450,000 in Tennessee. 

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery joined 27 other states in the action against CHS, as well as federal regulators, which settled with the hospital company two weeks ago for $2.3 million and a probationary period. The company also agreed to settle a class action over the breach last year.