Lawsuit challenges LA county over immigrant medical billing
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LOS ANGELES - Proponents of stricter immigration controls are trying to use the courts to make public health officials collect medical fees from the sponsors of legal immigrants who can&#39;t pay their bills.
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The family of a 28-year-old man who died at the county-owned Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center after a nurse allegedly turned down his vital signs monitor has filed a $1 million
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Attorneys for undocumented immigrants who have suffered violent crimes sued the federal government Wednesday for failing to issue protective visas approved by Congress more than six years ago.
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LOS ANGELES -- Financial problems caused mainly by the treatment of uninsured patients have forced two emergency rooms to close in Los Angles County, raising concerns that other facilities may be overwhelmed.
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A California Army National Guard soldier sued the military in federal court Tuesday over a program that could keep up to 20,000 Army personnel beyond their time of service.
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Two physicians have been indicted on charges alleging that for 20 years they kept an illegal immigrant in their home, a woman who told investigators she was not paid or allowed to leave without an escort except for shopping.
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The nonprofit company that runs the Prince George's hospital system has gone to court to pry loose public dollars that hospital officials say are needed to keep the system open.
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Immigrant workers recruited from South America and the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Katrina sued a prominent hotelier Wednesday, saying they are being exploited.
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The US government has launched a four-year, $1 billion program to pay some of the emergency room costs of treating illegal immigrants, but it has backed off plans to require hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
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SAN DIEGO A San Diego surgeon is leading a challenge of a federal rule that requires doctors who receive government funds to provide translation services for their non-English-speaking patients.
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A group of California cities and counties on Friday filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.(MSFT.O), saying that the world's largest software maker overcharged government agencies for software.
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LOS ANGELES The family of a 28-year-old Los Angeles man has filed a one (m) million dollar claim for negligence against troubled Martin Luther King Junior/Drew Medical Center and a nurse.
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TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The lion&#39;s share of Emergency Medicaid expenditures in North Carolina covers undocumented immigrants&#39; pregnancy and labor complications, a trend that&#39;s probably occurring in other states, a new study found.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.
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He copes with budget shortfalls, accidental deaths at King/Drew hospital and demands for his ouster. By Jia-Rui Chong. Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, the embattled director of Los Angeles County&#39;s Department of Health
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The federal government should be barred from making health professionals pay for translators for their non-English-speaking patients, a physicians&#39; group maintained in a lawsuit filed in US District Court here yesterday.
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THE TRAUMA UNFOLDS: County officials want to shutter the trauma unit at the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles, saying the troubled hospital needs to focus