July 30, 2012
Accretive Health Inc. will pay $2.5 million and stop doing business in Minnesota to resolve allegations its medical billing practices violated consumer protection laws, the company said Monday, a significant victory for state Attorney General Lori Swanson even though the company admitted no wrongdoing.
July 13, 2012
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson urged a federal judge on Thursday not to toss a consumer protection lawsuit accusing medical billing firm Accretive Health Inc. of squeezing money from sick patients, saying the company committed egregious misdeeds that must be litigated.
July 03, 2012
Accretive Health Inc. on Monday hammered away at the latest allegations of unethical medical billing practices lobbed by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson, telling a court that a consumer protection lawsuit doesn't demonstrate illegal conduct and should be thrown out.
June 20, 2012
Minnesota's attorney general on Tuesday threw the latest power punches in a high-profile slugfest with medical billing firm Accretive Health Inc., revising a consumer protection and patient privacy lawsuit to include additional allegations about the firm's debt collection tactics.