Accretive health lawsuit

• Accretive Health, a hospital billing and debt-collection contractor accused of badgering patients for money, wont be allowed to do business in Minnesota for as long as six years and will pay $2.
(Huffington Post)
• ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson says the state has settled a lawsuit against Chicago-based Accretive Health Inc. over aggressive efforts to collect debt from patients in several Minnesota hospitals.
(Chicago Sun-Times)
• Revenue-manager Accretive Health Inc. said it reached a $2.5 million settlement with the Minnesota attorney generals office over an ongoing lawsuit and said it voluntarily decided to cease all its operations in Minnesota.
(Wall Street Journal)