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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Current Parent Company: Tenet Healthcare
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Penalty: $123,772,464
Year: 2016
Date: October 3, 2016
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Kickbacks
Violation Description: Tenet Healthcare agreed to pay a total of $123 million to Georgia and South Carolina to setttle litigation alleging that two of its facilities paid illegal kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. This was part of a larger $513 million civil and criminal settlement involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Texas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: hospitals (for-profit)
Source of Data: (click here)
Archived Source: (click here)
Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.