UMC Las Vegas Hospital Sued for Billing Patients
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UMC is a teaching hospital in Las Vegas. A teaching hospital allows medical students, interns, residents and teaching physicans to interact and promote medical education.
UMC has had some bad press over the years relating to bad asset management, misuse of privacy, informationfirings of top Administrators, and more.
. Patient privacy scandal at UMC goes from rumor to indictment (4-29-2010) . UMC breach surfaces with theft of computer hard drives (3-5-2010) . UMC faces criticism from within medical field (12-23-2009) . At UMC, audits show privacy lapses are not new(11-24-2009)
On June 14, 2010 the Las Vegas Sun reported a class-action lawsuit that claims the hospital continually designated patients as "trauma patients" in order to overcharge them. "For years, UMC unlawfully billed and collected from emergency room patients millions of dollars in 'trauma' charges when the patients were not trauma patient," the lawsuit states.
Red the article http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/jun/14/lawsuit-alleges-umc-misclassified-patients-overcha/
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