Hospital system to pay $260 million in penalties

Former Naples-based HMA resolves charges related to fraudulent hospital charges to government health care programs.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 5:40 a.m. September 26, 2018
U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez of the Middle District of Florida, based in Tampa.Â
U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez of the Middle District of Florida, based in Tampa.Â
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FORT MYERS — The U.S. Justice Department has ordered Health Management Associates, formerly a major hospital chain headquartered in Naples, to pay more than $260 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims in a health care fraud case that dates back at least seven years and involved a pair of Charlotte County medical centers. 

 

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