focus -WSS

focus

author：focus 2025-09-27 10:04:27 - browse：8283

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Community Health Systems is facing a new federal probe into its hospital billing practices more than four years after the hospital chain settled separate allegations of fraudulent overbilling.

CHS, a national system of 71 rural and suburban hospitals, said this week it received a civil investigative demand from the Department of Justice on Jan. 11. Federal investigators asked CHS to hand over documents that covered “practices and procedures related to utilization review, inpatient admissions, and inpatient dialysis at our hospitals.”

The DOJ initiates these investigations into health care companies when it believes there could be a False Claims Act case, but has not initiated or joined any lawsuits yet.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： Hepatitis C has a cure — but many Americans still lack access to it
Next article： Travis Kelce and the trap of celebrity vaccine endorsements

explore

WSS

What is microchimerism and how does it affect maternal health?

Study finds gene variants tied to breast cancer risk in Black women

STAT Readout: The latest on Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Covid shots

Questions and answers about ramping up H5N1 bird flu vaccine

Kidney transplant patients stopped immunosuppressants in trial

For longer

hotspot

focus

entertainment

Sports medicine is finally prioritizing gender equality

Medicare must police algorithms in Medicare Advantage, Dems say

Medicare proposal to cover medical devices draws a mixed reaction

For longer

Hollywood unions extend contract negotiations for actors

The Readout: Biogen, Guardant, AstraZeneca, H5N1 vaccine

Cancer drug shortages should be causing more outrage

DeepMind touts AlphaFold's new skills as protein folding AI models face off

Bright Health sells Medicare Advantage business to Molina

H5N1 bird flu outbreak: Second human case reported, in Michigan

knowledge

Addressing health care workers' trauma can help fight burnout

Listen: A conversation with researcher Kevin Esvelt on biosecurity

Fentanyl is making it harder to start addiction treatment

Readout Newsletter: Medeor's stem cell study, Moderna's stock dip

Bill would allow buprenorphine prescription for addiction via telehealth

Investigation reveals sickle cell patients pressured into sterilizations

hotspot

explore

focus

focus