Sentence examples for inflated charges from inspiring English sources

The task force was also probing whether an American security company, United States Protection and Investigations, inflated charges for services by as much as $1 million.

Fileleftheros claimed enterprises with "very close" ties to Kammenos had routinely inflated charges for services that ranged from catering to plumbing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The report called for investigation of global money transfer firms by anti-trust bodies in the UK and the US to identify areas in which market concentrations and business practices were artificially inflating charges; greater transparency over foreign-exchange conversion charges; and regulatory reform in Africa to put an end to "exclusivity agreements".

Analysis of Companies House data has revealed that a subsidiary of Carillion, Cultural Community Solutions, set up to manage Ealing and Harrow libraries as a non-profit company, has apparently been using the practice to move money out of Ealing and Harrow and into the coffers of other Carillion companies by inflating charges liable to them and thereby eating up the profits it is actually making.

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