Byline: MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- HCA-The Healthcare Company, the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain, agreed Thursday to plead guilty to defrauding government health care programs and will pay more than $840 million in criminal fines, civil penalties and damages.
The agreement reached after a seven-year federal investigation triggered by private whistleblowers is the largest government fraud settlement ever negotiated by the Justice Department.
The company agreed to cooperate with a continuing investigation that Attorney General Janet Reno said could still produce criminal charges against individuals in what Deputy …
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