Acting United States Attorney Glenn McCormick announced the settlement May 5 after alleging the Phoenix hospital owned by Dignity Health and the neurosurgical practice, which resides on the hospital campus, allegedly billed Medicare for, "certain doubly and triply concurrent and overlapping surgeries."
According to KJZZ, the...Arizona News
According to the HHS Office of the Inspector General, the hospital overstated its wages and wage-related costs by $12.3 million - an error that could have resulted in more than $11 in overpayments to Arizona hospitals.
The 595-bed nonprofit hospital in midtown Phoenix is part of the CommonSpirit (formerly Dignity Health)...Arizona News
The Joint Commission identified the first and only designated Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center in Arizona--Banner University Medical Center Phoenix (BUMCP) now holds two stroke certifications from the commission.
In 2003, a partnership originated between The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association (AHA) and together...Arizona News
Hundreds of nurses at St. Joseph's and St. Mary's hospital in Tucson voted to unionize and join the largest registered nurses' union in the country--the National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC).
The votes were cast via secret ballot and officials from Carondelet Health Network, owner of the hospitals, told the Arizona Daily Star...