February 02, 2015
A unit of Community Health Systems Inc. and three New Mexico hospitals will pay $75 million to end a long-running and contentious False Claims Act suit over whether the company tricked the government into matching donations it made, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.
May 16, 2014
A federal court judge in New Mexico will reconsider summary judgment on some claims brought by a whistleblower in a contentious nine-year False Claims Act suit alleging Medicaid fraud against hospital chain Community Health Systems Inc.
September 24, 2013
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP on Monday won the official green light from a New Mexico federal judge to receive some $425,000 in legal fees from the federal government after the U.S. Department of Justice was hit with sanctions in a Medicare fraud suit against a hospital chain the firm is representing.
August 12, 2013
The government should pay Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP some $425,000 in legal fees in light of the sanctions the U.S. Department of Justice has incurred in a whistleblower suit accusing a hospital chain Skadden is representing of Medicare fraud, a New Mexico magistrate judge recommended Friday.
October 04, 2012
A New Mexico federal judge on Wednesday upheld a magistrate judge's recommendation that the government be sanctioned for failing to safeguard documents that may have aided hospital chain Community Health Systems Inc. in defending itself against a whistleblower's claims of Medicaid fraud.
September 04, 2012
A New Mexico magistrate judge on Friday sanctioned the federal government for destroying evidence that may have helped hospital chain Community Health Systems Inc. defend itself against a whistleblower's claims of Medicaid fraud.
December 13, 2011
A New Mexico federal judge on Monday disqualified McKool Smith PC from a whistleblower suit accusing Community Health Systems Inc. of Medicaid fraud, saying the firm had a conflict of interest because some of its attorneys had represented CHS in a previous dispute.
May 10, 2011
A New Mexico federal judge on Tuesday ordered a whistleblower to hand over information he had collected on hospitals affiliated with Community Health Systems Inc., a Tennessee-based hospital chain accused of engaging in Medicaid fraud.