Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta Sued Again Over Patient Admission and Billing Scheme, According to Page Perry, LLC.

Biotech Week | September 10, 2008 | Copyright

Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, Inc. engaged in a systematic scheme to inappropriately admit and overcharge thousands of patients, according to Page Perry, LLC, which has filed a second class action lawsuit against the hospital (see also Page Perry, Llc).

Dorothy J. Rivard, a former nursing and pharmacy assistant who was hospitalized at Saint Joseph's in October 2007, alleges in the new lawsuit that she was wrongly diagnosed as a stroke victim, injected over her objections with inappropriate medication, and then subjected to two days of unnecessary and expensive ...

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