Tenet’s legal woes accelerate
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
$54 mil. settlement is reached with the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California regarding allegations that two doctors performed unnecessary cardiac procedures at Redding Medical Center (1"The Gray Sheet" April 21, 2003, p. 17). Under the terms of the settlement, Tenet, its subsidiaries and Redding Medical Center deny that they deliberately submitted false claims to Medicare for the unnecessary procedures...