title: Picking up the tab. Healthcare chains put the past behind them, resolving past unpleasantries in order to make a clean start in the new year.
abstract: It's something of a holiday tradition: legal settlements at major investor-owned healthcare companies. But will Tenet's and HealthSouth's multimillion-dollar mea culpas over allegations of providing unnecessary care have the same healing effect that HCA's pair of year-end settlements yielded? Tenet's E. Peter Urbanowicz, left, said his company's moves show "the real progress we are making to put our legal challenges ... behind us".
authors.forename: Vince
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Galloro
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantone
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D005607:Fraud / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics*; D006278:Medicare; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data