Compliance News Roundup: Tenet Health

1. Tenet Healthcare agrees to plead guilty in Atlanta kickback scheme, will pay $514 million - “Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC) said Monday that it believes it has reached an agreement in principle with the government to resolve a long-running criminal investigation and civil litigation about a kick-back scandal involving an Atlanta medical clinic and three of the company's Atlanta-area hospitals”: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/08/01/tenet-healthcare-agrees-to-plead-guilty-in-atlanta.html

2. Tenet absorbs $514 million kickback settlement, Q2 earnings miss - “Tenet Healthcare Corp. continued a string of financial misses Monday by posting a $44 million net loss on continuing operations in its second quarter, while agreeing to settle an Atlanta kickback case that was hanging over it”: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160801/NEWS/160809983

3. Deeper Than the Headlines: Tenet Health - "Tenet health announced on Aug. 1, 2016 that it believes it has come to an agreement with the U.S. government for a $514 million settlement associated with a lawsuit alleging it paid for maternity patient referrals. Clinica steered patients for delivery services to the hospitals that paid them kickbacks": Deeper Than the Headlines: Tenet Health