Judge ends Tenet outlier suit.

This article reports that a federal judge in Florida has rejected a racketeering claim against Tenet Healthcare Corp. According to the lawsuit, Tenet deprived several hospitals of their fair share of Medicare outlier payments through a scheme to boost its own take by more than $1 million. Both Tenet and St. Barnabas, without conceding they had done anything illegal, settled with the Justice Department in 2006 over the alleged schemes, with Tenet agreeing to pay $788 million and St. Barnabas $265 million.