NULPH v. HOUSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC
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5:21-cv-00423
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January 19, 2022
Ga. Hospital Seeks Dismissal Of 'Patient Dumping' Claims
A Georgia health care system sought to dismiss a doctor's suit claiming it fired him for blowing the whistle on a small hospital's practice of "patient dumping," or transferring or discharging certain patients based on economic reasons, by arguing he didn't detail the patients' conditions.
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November 22, 2021
Doc Says Exposing Hospital's 'Patient Dumping' Led To Firing
The former director of a small Georgia hospital's emergency department has told a federal court that he lost his position after blowing the whistle on the alleged transferring or discharging of certain patients based on their "actual or perceived inability to pay."