January 19, 2022
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.
November 22, 2021
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."