Legal Opinion
Philip H. Sanderson v. Hca-The Healthcare Company Columbia Health Care Corporation Hospital Corporation of America and Healthtrust Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 12, 2006No. 04-6342PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.
In this False Claims Act suit, Philip Sanderson charged that the defendants, HCA — The Healthcare Company (now HCA, Inc.) and its corporate predecessors, Columbia Health Care Corporation, Hospital Corporation of America, and HealthTrust, Inc. (collectively “HCA”), had violated the Act by filing “hospital cost reports” based on the allocation of corporate debt expense to its individual facilities rather than to the “home office,” a practice that Sanderson contends was in violation of Medicare and similar federal programs from which HCA was claiming reimbursement. The…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- United States Ex Rel. Clausen v. Laboratory Corp. of America, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2002
- United States Ex Rel. James M. Thompson v. Columbia/hca Healthcare CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
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