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Business Law Position Paper William Jones Doug Rhodes Mickly Taylor Law/529 Professor Racquel Peebles February 17, 2004 Business Law Position Paper Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain with corporate offices in Nashville, Tennessee, has been ordered to pay the State of Utah nearly $857,000 for filing false Medicaid reports and paying doctors kickbacks, the Utah Attorney General's office said (Associated Press, 2004). HCA, known in Utah as Mountain-Star Health, operates six hospitals in Utah and more than 400 hospitals throughout the country (Murphy, 2004). This is the second time that HCA has had to reimburse Utah for losses. The corporation paid nearly a half-million dollars to settle fraud charges in 2001 in the largest government fraud settlement ever reached. They also agreed to pay an additional $840 million in criminal fines, civil penalties, and damages for false billing practices. This settlement with the Justice Department would end the government's seven-year investigation...

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