The Department of Justice has intervened in a whistle-blower case alleging the CEO of a hospital company pressured emergency room doctors to admit patients in 14 California hospitals who should have been treated as outpatients, placed on observation status or discharged (United States ex rel. Berntsen v. Prime Healthcare Servs., C.D. Cal., 2:11-cv-08214-PJW, intervention 5/24/16).
Whistle-blower Karin Berntsen, a director of performance improvement at one of the Prime Healthcare Services Inc.'s hospitals where the improper admissions allegedly occurred, originally filed the False Claims Act lawsuit. Berntsen said Prime’s CEO Dr. Prem Reddy directed emergency department physicians to ...
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