 Among the crimes uncovered were doctors being offered financial incentives to bring in patients, falsifying diagnostic codes to increase reimbursements from Medicare and other government programs, and billing the government for unnecessary lab tests, though Scott personally was never charged with any wrongdoing.HCA wound up pleading guilty to more than a dozen criminal and civil charges and paying fines totaling $1.7 billion.In 1999, Columbia/HCA changed its name back to HCA, Inc.