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Former Tenet Healthcare Exec John Holland Faces Charges

February 2nd, 2017 • Lawsuits & Litigation • 2 minute read
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Author Sara E. Teller

Former Tenet Healthcare Exec John Holland Faces Charges

John Holland, a former senior vice president of Tenet Healthcare Corp, a U.S. hospital chain, faces charges related to paying bribes for patient referrals, enabling the enterprise to falsely bill Medicaid $400 million, and in turn lining executive pockets with millions. The charges brought against him are part of a whistleblower lawsuit that dates back almost a decade which was issued against Tenet, Holland and his fellow conspirators.Holland, now 60 years old, began his career with Tenet Healthcare in 2000 as the Chief Executive of North Fulton Medical Center Inc. in Roswell, Georgia.  From 2000 to 2013, Holland served as the company's Senior Vice President of Operations for the southern region of the U.S. where Tenet operated.  In October 2013, he moved into his seat as the Chief Executive Officer of the LHP Hospital Group in Plano, Texas.  However, Holland was forced to step down from this position on January 24th in order to prepare his defense.

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The executive was indicted in federal court in Miami and faces charges of four counts of healthcare fraud, mail fraud and major fraud against the United States.  Prior to this, Tenet Healthcare Corp and two of its Atlanta based establishments, in a related case, reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve criminal charges and civil claims.  They had been ordered to pay more than $514 million.  Holland has pleaded not guilty.Holland's attorney, Richard Deane, said he felt the settlement against Tenet Healthcare as a whole should have finalized the issue.  The Department should have not pursued charges against Holland separately.  Both Deane and industry analysts say pursuing the individual executives in this case is highly usual.  However, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco says the Justice Department's decision to pursue Holland is in line with its commitment to holding both businesses and individuals responsible for such crimes. Holland is the first of the executives to be indicted and faces charges similar to those that will inevitably be brought against his cohorts.  Deane says his client is indeed innocent and a jury trial will prove this.  

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Sara E. Teller

About Sara E. Teller

Sara is a credited freelance writer, editor, contributor, and essayist, as well as a novelist and poet with nearly twenty years of experience. A seasoned publishing professional, she's worked for newspapers, magazines and book publishers in content digitization, editorial, acquisitions and intellectual property. Sara has been an invited speaker at a Careers in Publishing & Authorship event at Michigan State University and a Reading and Writing Instructor at Sylvan Learning Center. She has an MBA degree with a concentration in Marketing and an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, graduating with a 4.2/4.0 GPA. She is also a member of Chi Sigma Iota and a 2020 recipient of the Donald D. Davis scholarship recognizing social responsibility. Sara is certified in children's book writing, HTML coding and social media marketing. Her fifth book, PTSD: Healing from the Inside Out, was released in September 2019 and is available on Amazon. You can find her others books there, too, including Narcissistic Abuse: A Survival Guide, released in December 2017.

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