Community Health Systems, $97 million
U.S. ex rel. Doghramji, et al. v. Community Health Systems Inc., et al.,
Middle District of Tennessee.
Firm attorneys represented three relators in a case alleging healthcare fraud by Tennessee-based company Community Health Systems, Inc. (“CHS”). The scheme to defraud the Medicare system jeopardized patients safety by unnecessarily hospitalizing patients and preventing patients suffering from true emergencies from receiving adequate care. CHS paid $97 million to resolve accusations that CHS emergency rooms in 120 hospitals systematically admitted patients not suffering from any emergency who should have been treated in an out-patient setting to capitalize on increased cost of reimbursement for emergency services and cheat federal and state insurance plans out of millions.