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For years Desert Valley Hospital in San Bernardino County has performed numerous stent procedures without a full license to do so. State inspectors have cited the hospital repeatedly. + read more

Former medical coding staff from Prime Healthcare hospitals have raised concerns about diagnoses that may misconstrue what’s going on with the patient. However, it is not always easy for patients to know what diagnoses were used as a basis for a hospital bill to Medicare. Find answers to questions... + read more

Prime Healthcare Services bills Medicare for a variety of unusual ailments – among them a brain disease and a condition causing eyes to bleed – that can generate lucrative payments to the chain.  + read more

Prime Healthcare has responded to questions about medical coding by saying it relies on doctors to properly diagnose patients and on hospital chief executives to oversee legal compliance. Prime also cautioned against “being duped by innuendo and misstatements” by disgruntled former workers. + read more

Prime Healthcare Services acquired 11 California hospitals from 2005 to 2009. After Prime acquired each facility, the percentage of seniors with Medicare who were sent from the emergency room to the main hospital increased. Compare the Medicare admission rates at each hospital, before and after... + read more

Deciding when a patient is stable enough to leave a hospital is difficult for any doctor, but some former employees of Prime Healthcare Services say the chain has gone to extreme lengths to keep patients at their medical facilities. + read more