A recently unsealed lawsuit alleges HCA Healthcare and its medical staffing company partner, Team Health, backed by private equity giant Blackstone Group, are overcharging patients.
According to the complaint, HCA Healthcare and Team Health intentionally inflated medical bills through medically unnecessary trauma alerts and unneeded tests, including CT scans, blood samples, and X-rays. The lawsuit accuses both companies of systematic fraud against state and federal healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, violating the False Claims Act.
This lawsuit is not the first legal action in Tennessee against Team Health for over billing. Last November, Buncombe County alleged Team Health improperly coded emergency room patients, over billing patients for more complex medical treatments than they actually received.
Sources:
https://avlwatchdog.org/doctors-lawsuit-hca-healthcare-and-teamhealth-overcharged-patients/