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OXFORD -- Dick Scruggs, perhaps most famous for his role in Mississippi's successful litigation to recover billions in public healthcare expenditures from the tobacco industry, has a new cause: a push against nonprofit hospitals for alleged overcharges of uninsured patients.
The Mississippi Business Journal chatted with Scruggs, who has moved from the Gulf Coast to Oxford, about class actions filed in June against some of the largest nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. by uninsured patients of those hospitals. The complaint: nonprofit hospitals fail to provide government-required charity care and that hospitals are charging uninsureds more than any other patient group including Medicaid, Medicare and those with private insurance.
As of July 1, 19 litigations have been filed in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, and eases of a similar nature are expected to be filed soon against major hospitals in other states.
The litigation is focused on "assuring...
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