A Minnesota hospital company that worked with debt-collection firm Accretive Health is in hot water with the federal government over allegedly harassing sick patients for money in the emergency department and at their bedsides. The University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, a Fairview Health Services hospital, could get booted from Medicare and Medicaid as a consequence of these alleged activities, according to the Star Tribune.
Here Come The Feds: Minnesota Hospital Faces Sanctions Over Shaking Down Patients
The Huffington Post, Huffington Post: Business
Fri, 09/14/2012 - 4:23pm
Topics: the university minneapolis minnesota attorney general lori swanson patients centers medicaid services federal documents cms minnesota medical center president carolyn wilson york times democratic minnesota sen al franken american hospital association fairview ceo mark eustis services north memorial maple grove hospital minnesota accretive health university minnesota medical center fairview medicare medicaid star tribune swanson sanctions reports emergency including obtained money led treatment settle debt-collection government company billing employees companies newspaper room violated pay collection show debt harassment
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