The company admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to a five-year independent review of its Medicare billing.
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Prime hospital bills for malnutrition, but patient says she wasn’t treated
As far as Medicare knew, Darlene Courtois fell ill last year with kwashiorkor, a dangerous form of malnutrition usually seen among starving children d
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Hospital owner’s charity may have avoided taxes
A foundation controlled by Dr. Prem Reddy, the driving force behind Southern California’s fast-growing Prime Healthcare Services hospital chain, may have avoided hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal taxes through a questionable charitable gift, tax experts said.
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Hospital chain, already under scrutiny, reports high malnutrition rates
Redding, near Mount Shasta, and Victorville, in the Mojave Desert, have little in common but an unusual statistic: In each city, a hospital has report