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CA hospital chair pleads guilty to paying for referrals
The former co-owner and chairman of the board of a California hospital has pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. The man, 74-year-old Robert Borseau, is the fourth... Read more...
City of Los Angeles wins $1.6M patient-dumping settlement
The city of Los Angeles has won a $1.6 million settlement with an area hospital over charges that the hospital dumped psychiatric patients on the city's Skid Row. College Hospital Costa Mesa and... Read more...
Another City of Angels exec pleads guilty to medical fraud
Yet another former executive at City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles has pleaded guilty in the case involving homeless people being recruited for unnecessary medical treatment. Dante... Read more...
LA man admits to paying homeless to be hospitalized
A Los Angeles man tied to the scandal over hospitals allegedly paying homeless people to be admitted has copped to his part in the scheme. Estill Mitts has entered a plea agreement with federal... Read more...
CA hospital agrees to $1M patient dumping settlement
One of several Los Angeles hospitals caught up in a patient-dumping scandal has agreed to pay $1 million to settle charges that it dumped a paraplegic man on the city's Skid Row in a hospital gown... Read more...
Patient dumping issues need systematic look
At this point, you've heard frequently about the problem Los Angeles faces with "patient dumping," which takes place when hospitals discharge indigent patients and more or less kick them to the... Read more...
LA approves fines for patient dumping
It looks like Los Angeles is going to approve fines for hospitals that engage in what it defines as patient dumping. The city council has given preliminary approval to a measure under which hospitals... Read more...
Los Angeles investigates another patient dumping case
Los Angeles city prosecutors have begun investigating another alleged patient dumping incident, this time a Costa Mesa hospital, which allegedly took a mentally ill man 42 miles to the city's Skid... Read more...
