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Health Care & Hospital Law

Nov. 25, 2010

Doctors Sue to Collect Unpaid Bills

Litigation over La Vida Medical Group, which served 100,000 patients, could test state oversight.


By Emma Gallegos


Daily Journal Staff Writer


At its peak, La Vida Medical Group was responsible for the health and wellness of more than 100,000 patients in Southern California and the Central Valley, but just who was responsible for those patients when the group's finances soured is the issue in a lawsuit filed by the emergency room physicians who treated La Vida patients.


Set up like many other doctors groups, La Vida attempted to keep co...

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