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3 Million Plaintiffs Seeking $1.2B from California Health Firm

A lawsuit over high health care bills filed on behalf of more than 3 million employers and people seeks as much as $1.2 billion from a large Northern California health systems in an antitrust class-action trial that got underway Thursday. …

California Healthcare Provider Agrees to $90M Fraud Settlement

A major California-based medical provider has agreed to pay a total of $90 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud, officials said Monday. Sacramento-based Sutter Health, northern California’s largest hospital system, got inflated payments because it said people in its …

Sutter Health in California Settling Medicare Allegations for $30M

A Northern California health care provider has agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the federal government for Medicare patient reimbursements. Sutter Health didn’t acknowledge any liability in the settlement announced Friday by the U.S. Department …

Sutter To Pay $46M To Settle California Anesthesia Case

One of the California’s largest hospital chains has agreed to pay $46 million to settle allegations that its method for billing for anesthesia services was false and misleading. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Sutter Health’s decision to pay comes as …