Insurance provider files suit against KDMC
By Brandon Roberts, The Ironton Tribune, Ohio | |
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The lawsuit, filed
"Homeland seeks a declaration that the (policies) do not provide coverage for the claims against provider defendants in the underlying actions," according to the suit.
The provider defendants in the case are named as KDMC, the
The underlying actions are 13 lawsuits filed by patients seeking damages arising out of allegedly unnecessary cardiac procedures and, according to the suit, arise from the central allegation that provider defendants performed unnecessary cardiac procedures not due to misdiagnosis and "knowingly subjected" plaintiffs to "significant medical risks" based on "fraudulent concealment of medical facts."
In what is being called the largest federal health care fraud settlement involving a hospital in the history of
The payout resolves an investigation by the
Homeland is being represented by
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