Covenant allegedly violated the Stark Law, which prohibits a hospital from profiting from referrals from a physician who has an improper compensation arrangement with the hospital.
The Justice Department did not identify the physicians but said they were some of the highest paid hospital-employed physicians in the entire United States.
Read the Justice Department’s release about the alleged Covenant Medical Center Stark violations.
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