Tuomey Healthcare System news and information

Cardiologists and the Infirmary Health System in Mobile, Ala., are accused of needlessly exposing patients to radiation in a nine-year-running kickback scheme tainting an estimated $522 million in Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare reimbursements since 2004.
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Facing a potential penalty of up to $237 million, Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C. says it did nothing illegal and is asking a federal judge to throw out a jury verdict that the hospital violated the False Claims Act and the Stark law.
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Pressure is mounting for executives at Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C., to settle their epic legal conflict with the federal government to avoid rendering the community hospital insolvent.
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The next time whistle-blower attorney Joel Androphy sits down for a settlement conference with hospital lawyers, he'll have a potent new tool in his arsenal: last week's $39 million Stark law jury verdict against Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C.
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A, jury concluded that Tuomey Healthcare in Sumter, S.C., violated the False Claims Act by submitting tens of thousands of illegal bills to Medicare worth $39 million.
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South Carolina jurors may render a verdict that would put Tuomey Healthcare System out of business, but they won't know about that risk beforehand.
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Growing up in Gainesville, Fla., sports taught Phil Wright the essential skills he credits with his success as a hospital administrator: tenacity, practice—and especially blocking and tackling.
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I am writing to correct several significant factual misstatements in a Modern Healthcare article regarding the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in United States v. Tuomey Healthcare System (“Mixed outcome for Tuomey,” April 9, p. 16). I was one of the attorneys who represented...
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With the largest-ever jury verdict for a Stark law violation hanging over its head, South Carolina's Tuomey Healthcare System got only a partial reprieve in an appeals court opinion that tossed out the $44 million judgment and ordered a new trial.
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A federal appeals court overturned a district judge's unusual 2010 order for Tuomey Healthcare System to pay more than $45 million for alleged Stark law violations.
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