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Prime, Union Trade Barbs Yet Again

Rhetoric Heats Up Over Daughters of Charity Deal

By Ron Shinkman

Nov 20, 2025

California Region

Forward/E-Mail

Prime Healthcare\'s often contentious relationship with California\'s labor unions flared anew this week, as the for-profit hospital system traded charges with the Service Employers International-United Healthcare Workers West. The SEIU-UHW has alleged that Prime overbilled Medicare to the tune of $93 million by admitting patients to the hospital for short hospital stays rather than keeping them in observation and not officially admitting them as inpatients.

Prime, Union Trade Barbs Yet Again

Rhetoric Heats Up Over Daughters of Charity Deal

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