The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2013 against Yakima Regional and Toppenish Community Hospital by an indigent patient. According to the complaint, the hospitals violated state law by failing to tell patients about charity care they were potentially eligible to receive.
At the time of the violations, both hospitals were owned by Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates. Community Health Systems acquired HMA’s 71 hospitals in 2014.
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