REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEW YORK -- The daughter of late comedienne Joan Rivers filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the New York outpatient clinic that treated the entertainer a week before her death last year.

Rivers, who was 81, suffered cardiac arrest during an examination of her throat and vocal cords at the Yorkville Endoscopy center on Manhattan's Upper East Side and died a week later, on Sept. 4, at a New York hospital.

Earlier this month a government health agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, found the Yorkville facility had fallen short of the conditions necessary to qualify for coverage as a supplier of outpatient surgical services.

The clinic was given until March to correct its deficiencies or face revocation of its federal accreditation and funding.