Reply #42: LAM< Corporate Integrity Agreement: Tenet Healthcare: We're Watching YOU [View All]

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Tenet Healthcare: We're Watching YOU :(
Submitted by ravencroft on Thu, 2006-06-15 10:48. Fort Mill Hospital Debate
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After Alvarado: More Trouble Ahead?

While the San Diego criminal trials focused exclusively on Alvarado, physician relocation issues at nineteen other current or former Tenet hospitals are the subject of federal criminal or civil investigations, subpoenas or requests for documents.

U.S. Attorney Lam’s press release today hints at more trouble for Tenet on other fronts as well, including the much-rumored “global settlement" talks underway in Washington. Ms. Lam pointedly noted that from 1994 to 1999, Tenet operated under a Corporate Integrity Agreement—itself the result of the company pleading out to earlier wrongdoing—and that “most of the events at issue at Alvarado Hospital occurred during the period of time the hospital was operating under the Corporate Integrity Agreement." Tenet’s high-priced legal fixers are going to look pretty silly making the argument for a new global settlement at the same time Justice Department lawyers are noting the company’s apparent violations of the earlier settlement.

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