Hospital

Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care

| Importance: 10/10

Steward Health Care, the Dallas-based for-profit hospital system operating 31 hospitals across eight states, declared bankruptcy in one of the most colossal failures of a hospital chain in American history. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management and former CEO Ralph de la Torre reportedly …

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Sutter Health Settles Antitrust Case for $575 Million, Admits to All-or-Nothing Contracting and Price Concealment

| Importance: 9/10

One day before trial, California hospital system Sutter Health agreed to pay $575 million and change anticompetitive practices after a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and consolidated with a 2014 case brought by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. …

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HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History

| Importance: 10/10

The Department of Justice announced that HCA Inc. (formerly Columbia/HCA), once led by Rick Scott, agreed to pay the United States $631 million in civil penalties and damages, bringing the total recovery to $1.7 billion when combined with earlier settlements—the largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. …

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