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Company: Community Health Systems
Current Parent Company: Community Health Systems
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Penalty: $31,000,000
Year: 2000
Date: May 9, 2000
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Billing Abuses
Violation Description: Community Health Systems agreed to pay $31 million to Illinois, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia as well as the federal government to resolve false claims allegations related to upcoding in reimbursement requests submitted to government health programs. The settlement was also announced by the Justice Department; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Tennessee
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: hospitals
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.