Universal Health Services to negotiate compliance agreement in billing case

Universal Health Services Inc. is preparing to negotiate a compliance agreement with the federal government as part of a proposal to settle allegations of faulty billing practices. “We have presented to the government what our compliance program entails, and we think it’s fairly robust and comprehensive,” Steve Filton, finance chief of the King of Prussia, Pa.-based hospital-management company, said Wednesday during a health-care industry conference in New York.