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Last summer, a barrage of class action lawsuits alleging pervasive abuses in the charity care practices of tax-exempt hospitals took the healthcare industry by storm. Masterminded by Richard Scruggs famous for his tobacco litigation case, the charity care campaign sought multidistrict litigation status for dozens of class action lawsuits filed simultaneously across the nation, seeking millions of dollars in recovery based on a common set of inflammatory allegations, which include the following: