Article: Three of the Nation's Largest Nonprofit Hospital Systems Charged With Failing to Provide Government-Required Charity Healthcare to Uninsured Patients; - New York Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic And New Orleans' Ochsner Clinic Are Named As Defendants In Class Action Litigations -.

NEW YORK, CLEVELAND, and NEW ORLEANS, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- New York Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic Health System and New Orleans' Ochsner Clinic Foundation hospital systems today were charged in class action lawsuits brought by uninsured patient plaintiffs. Each of the lawsuits charges the respective defendant nonprofit hospital system and hospital with victimizing the uninsured plaintiff patients by failing to fulfill their obligations to provide government required charity care in return for tax exemptions. The lawsuits charge the defendants with requiring their uninsured patients to pay unfair and unreasonable health care prices that are far in excess of the ...

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