October 03, 2016
Executives at Tenet Healthcare hospitals lied to in-house and outside counsel to conceal a kickback scheme and wrote incriminating emails about paying for patient referrals, according to documents released Monday in a $513 million settlement of civil and criminal allegations. Here are five key details from the documents.
October 03, 2016
Tenet Healthcare Corp. and two of its hospitals will pay $513 million and enter guilty pleas to resolve investigations into payments of kickbacks for referrals of pregnant immigrants, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.
August 15, 2016
A Georgia federal judge suggested Monday that the U.S. government and Tenet Healthcare Corp. either finalize a supposedly pending settlement of civil and criminal probes into whistleblower allegations that Tenet defrauded Medicaid by distributing kickbacks for referrals of pregnant immigrants, or else prepare for trial.
February 23, 2016
Tenet Healthcare Corp. on Monday said it has offered $238 million to settle civil and criminal probes into whistleblower allegations that it defrauded Medicaid by distributing kickbacks for referrals of pregnant immigrants.
June 04, 2015
A Community Health Systems Inc. unit will pay more than half a million dollars to settle a False Claims Act suit brought by a former executive, accusing one of its Georgia hospitals of handing a clinic kickbacks for sending women living in the country illegally to the hospital to deliver babies on Medicaid's dime, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
June 24, 2014
A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday rejected Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Health Management Associates Inc.'s bid to dismiss a False Claims Act suit alleging they paid kickbacks for referrals of pregnant immigrants, saying a whistleblower sufficiently alleged the hospitals knew they were violating Medicaid rules.
February 20, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday it's joining a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit accusing hospital giants Tenet Healthcare Corp. and Health Management Associates Inc. of paying millions of dollars in kickbacks for referrals of pregnant, Hispanic immigrants whose deliveries were billed to Medicaid.
August 01, 2013
Health Management Associates, Tenet Healthcare Corp. and their affiliates allegedly paid kickbacks to clinics that referred undocumented pregnant women to their hospitals and submitted false claims to Medicaid for reimbursement, according to a federal whistleblower lawsuit unsealed in Georgia federal court on Wednesday.