in achieving a $65 million settlement between the government and the 5th largest for-profit hospital system in the country, Prime Healthcare. The settlement resolved allegations that 14 Prime hospitals in California knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who required only less costly, outpatient care and by billing for more expensive patient diagnoses than the patients had (a practice known as “up-coding”). References External links James Hoyer Website Consumer Warning Network Law Office of Allen E. Schwartz Law firms based in Florida Law firms established in 1992