Sentence examples for inflated charge from inspiring English sources

But while the judge, Col. Denise Lind, acquitted the 25-year-old Manning of the inflated charge of aiding the enemy, she convicted him of several other charges, including multiple violations of the Espionage Act, which the Obama administration is also using to prosecute leakers in civilian court.

These inflated charges have not yet been backed by evidence, and so for now they look like another attempt to disparage the Sharif name and cash in on ambient public ire.

Federal prosecutors had charged that from October 1995 to August 2003, St. Barnabas deliberately inflated charges under a Medicare program intended to increase reimbursements to hospitals that care for patients with medical complications.

The inflated charges involved the complex rules under the Medicare system for reimbursement to hospitals providing treatment that lies outside of federally set standard payments for various procedures and normal hospital costs.

It does not settle civil allegations that HCA inflated charges to the government and paid kickbacks to doctors so they would refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to its facilities.

Hospital chain Tenet Healthcare said on Wednesday it agreed with U.S. government regulators to pay $30.75 million to settle charges that it improperly paid doctors for referrals and inflated charges to Medicare.

Finally, hospitals may be setting artificially inflated charges to increase the nominal value of their uncompensated care indices, which are based on charges.

In each case, fluids expelled from the overpressured Akata Shales may inflate (charge) the pressures in the adjacent sands.

But one eventually discovered that lawyers for plaintiffs could play hardball, too, inflating charges and using the news media to play on public fears and prejudices in hopes of embarrassing the church into settlements.

Before these national companies arrived, trash cartel leaders in the city divided up the territory and then agreed not to compete for one another's customers, a practice that allowed them to inflate charges, prosecutors contend.

All hospital charges were adjusted to reference year 2003 by inflating charges from prior years at a 3% annual rate.