Prime care Services, Inc., Prime care Foundation, Inc., and Prime care Management, Inc. (collectively Prime), and Prime’s Founder and Chief exective officer, Dr. Prem Reddy, have united to pay the u. s. $65 million to settle allegations that fourteen Prime hospitals in Calif. wittingly submitted false claims to health care by admitting patients World Health Organization needed solely more cost effective, patient care and by asking for costlier patient diagnoses than the patients had (a apply called “up-coding”), the Justice proclaimed these days. below the settlement agreement, Dr. Reddy pays $3,250,000 and Prime pays $61,750,000.