Picking up the tab. Healthcare chains put the past behind them, resolving past unpleasantries in order to make a clean start in the new year
Galloro, V.; Mantone, J.; Taylor, M.
Modern Healthcare 35(1): 6-7 1
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7480 PMID: 15693507 Document Number: 586015
It's something of a holiday tradition: legal settlements at major investor-owned healthcare companies. But will Tenet's and HealthSouth's multimillion-dollar mea culpas over allegations of providing unnecessary care have the same healing effect that HCA's pair of year-end settlements yielded? Tenet's E. Peter Urbanowicz, left, said his company's moves show "the real progress we are making to put our legal challenges ... behind us".