January 07, 2020
Health Management Associates Inc. and a whistleblower, whose complaint against the now-defunct hospital chain helped the government secure more than $260 million to settle fraud charges, were ordered Tuesday by a D.C. federal judge to mediate their dispute over an undisclosed amount in attorney fees.
September 25, 2018
Health Management Associates Inc. agreed to pay more than $260 million to settle allegations that it wrongly pressured physicians to admit more patients to its hospitals' emergency services departments in order to fraudulently bill the government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
December 19, 2017
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said Envision Healthcare Corp. subsidiary EmCare and a separate Pennsylvania physician group will pay more than $33 million to resolve whistleblower claims over kickbacks from now-defunct Health Management Associates Inc. they received in exchange for providing patient referrals to HMA facilities.