Patients paid in Minnesota hospital billing settlement
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is distributing money to patients who claimed they were subject to aggressive collection tactics at Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services.By: Associated Press,
ST. PAUL — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is distributing money to patients who claimed they were subject to aggressive collection tactics at Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services.
Swanson has distributed $364,000 to 90 people. The money comes from a July agreement in which Fairview vendor Accretive Health paid $2.49 million to settle allegations that the company broke Minnesota debt collection and consumer protection laws.
A Swanson spokesman tells the St. Paul Pioneer Press former state Supreme Court Justice James Gilbert acted as a special master in deciding how to distribute the funds.
Individual awards vary from $1,000 to $7,000. The remaining $2.1 million will go into Minnesota's general fund.
Swanson alleged that Chicago-based Accretive Health instituted overly aggressive collection tactics at Fairview. The company admitted no wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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