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Sutter Health, One of the Largest Nonprofit Healthcare Systems in the Country, Charged in Class Action Lawsuit With Breaching Its Obligation to Provide Government Required Charitable Medical Care to Its Uninsured Patients.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 30-JUN-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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SAN FRANCISCO and OXFORD, Miss., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Sutter Health ("Sutter") today has been charged in a class action lawsuit brought by uninsured patient plaintiffs with breaching its obligations to provide charitable healthcare to uninsured patients in return for substantial tax exemptions. The complaint alleges that Sutter charges uninsured patients unfair and unreasonable prices that are far in excess of those charged to its insured patients. The class action litigation against Sutter was filed in federal court in San Francisco, California. Sutter, a major California nonprofit healthcare system headquartered in Sacramento, has over 20 nonprofit hospitals that comprise its system.

As set forth in the complaint, plaintiff alleges...

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