Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health System agreed to pay $4.3 million to settle allegations involving stolen opioids, WNEM.com reports.
Here are four takeaways:
1. The Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating the health system after a nurse and an anesthesiology resident overdosed on stolen opioids in 2013. The nurse's overdose was fatal.
2. The health system reportedly failed to secure DEA registrations for 15 offsite ambulatory care locations, which gave patients narcotics from the main hospital's pharmacy. This was one of several Controlled Substances Act violations, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said.
3. The system also allegedly had insufficient protections against opioid theft and diversion due to "significant" record-keeping violations.
4. This is the nation's largest settlement involving alleged diversion of controlled substances.