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Atlantic Health System (AHS) is a not-for-profit private healthcare company that operates hospitals and health care facilities in New Jersey. The president and chief executive of Atlantic Health System is Brian A. Gragnolati, and the chairman of the Board of Trustees is Robert Toohey. Facilities of AHS include *Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, New Jersey *Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey *Overlook Medical Center, Summit, New Jersey *Newton Medical Center, Newton, New Jersey *Atlantic Rehabilitation Center, Morristown, New Jersey *Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains, New Jersey Atlantic Health System received given an "A1" rating by Moody's Investors Service in 2009. In 2012, AHS listed 11,624 employees and 3,123 physicians. With 1,315 beds 70,743 admissions were registered. In 2013, the company was ranked 49th among Fortune’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For” . ==Legal controversy== On June 21, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that AHS Hospital Corp., Atlantic Health System Inc., and Overlook Hospital agreed to pay the United States $8,999,999 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by allegedly overbilling Medicare. The settlement is part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) initiative.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/June/12-civ-789.html )〕 The settlement resolves allegations that Overlook Hospital, owned and operated by AHS Hospital Corporation, and Atlantic Health Systems Inc., overbilled Medicare for patients who were treated on an inpatient basis when they should have been treated as either observation patients or on an outpatient basis.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Atlantic Health System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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