United Healthcare Corporation and three of its hospitals agree to the payment . Marketers recruited homeless from Chicago 's ` ` Death Row '' for often unneeded treatment . `` Hospitals colluding with marketers to fatten profits through illegal referrals for costly and sometimes needless medical services are pocketing millions of taxpayer dollars , '' said Glenn R. Ferry , special agent in charge for the Los Angeles region of the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services . NBC and Medi - Cal pick up the tab .
United Healthcare Corporation and three of its hospitals agree to the payment . Marketers recruited homeless from Chicago 's ` ` Death Row '' for often unneeded treatment . NBC and Medi - Cal pick up the tab .