Dignity Health, a hospital chain that operates in three states but is based in San Francisco, will be paying $37 million as settlement to the government for alleged overbilling under the Medicare and military health care program. The malpractice has been going on for years, with Dignity, formerly named Catholic Healthcare West, submitting medical bills for inpatient care at 13 of the 39 hospitals where it operates in Arizona, Nevada and California. The bills, as found by the Justice Department, should have been charged with outpatient rates, which are less expensive than the inpatient rates that the hospital charged on the medical bills.
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