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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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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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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