Tenet Healthcare Corp indicted on Illegal Kickbacks

A federal grand jury Thursday indicted two subsidiaries of Tenet Healthcare Corp. on charges they paid illegal kickbacks to doctors who referred patients to a San Diego hospital. Between 1992 and 2002, Tenet HealthSystem Hospitals Inc. and Alvarado Hospital Medical Center Inc. paid more than $10 million to a fund that helped recruit doctors to the area, purportedly to fill needs in Alvarado's service area, according to the 17-count indictment returned in San Diego.

Of special note:

In 1994, Tenet -- then known as National Medical Enterprises -- pleaded guilty and paid $325,000 to settle a federal investigation into illegal payments to physicians who referred patients to its psychiatric hospitals.

so it looks like more of the same?