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Prime hospital cited for repeated patient privacy breaches
The California public health department on Tuesday issued citations against Shasta Regional Medical Center, the hospital under Prime Healthcare Services, where two top executives released a patient's
FBI interviews patient about alleged Prime Healthcare upcoding, privacy breach
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week interviewed a patient, following reports that Prime Healthcare Services violated patient privacy when two executives at Prime-owned Shasta Regional
Prime hospital CEO, CMO blasted for sharing patient chart with media
Two executives at Shasta Regional Medical Center, owned by Prime Healthcare Services, are facing severe criticism after sharing a patient's medical chart with news outlets. The incident, in addition
FBI probes Prime Healthcare for alleged upcoding, watchdog reports
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into the billing practices of California-based hospital operator, Prime Healthcare Services, following reports that it allegedly overbilled
Prime hospital allegedly bills at six times state rate for heart failure
A hospital owned by California chain Prime Healthcare Services has allegedly been billing Medicare to treat patients for heart failure at rates far higher than the national average, reports
Prime Healthcare blocked from acquiring hospital, closure imminent
In a blow to hospital mergers, Prime Healthcare's move to buy Victor Valley Community Hospital (VVCH) has been denied because the sale is "not in the public interest," California Attorney General
Prime Healthcare pitches singular corporate voice
Prime Healthcare Services should be a feel-good story: Upstart hospital chain buys financially ailing facilities and turns them around, planting feather after feather in the cap of its chairman,
Tales of greater transparency in healthcare finance
A few weeks ago a press release moved across my desk that was distinctly different from the thousands of others I have scrutinized in the 18 years I have spent writing about the healthcare industry.
High malnutrition rates at Prime Healthcare hospitals raise doubts
Hospitals operated by Prime Healthcare Services have reported higher rates of a Third World nutritional disorder and malnutrition in its Medicare patients, California Watch reports. California
Prime has highest malnutrition claims in nation, union says
Medicare data analyzed by the Service Employees International Union concludes that hospitals owned by California-based Prime Healthcare Services have the highest rate of treatment for malnourished
