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Community Health Makes All-Cash Bid for Tenet

By Pharmaceutical Processing | April 18, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — Hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc. on Monday
revised its $3 billion offer for rival Tenet Healthcare Corp. to an all-cash
bid.

Community Health is now offering $6 per share in cash. In December, it had
gone public with a bid of $5 per share in cash and $1 per share in stock. At the
time, the offer was a premium of about 40 percent to the Dallas company’s
shares.

But Tenet’s board rejected that offer, and adopted a “poison pill” measure to
fend off the bid.

Tenet had no immediate comment on the revised offer.

Earlier this month, Tenet filed a lawsuit that alleges Community Health
Systems bilked Medicare, artificially inflating the value of its shares. The
Franklin, Tenn., company said the allegations in the lawsuit are “irresponsible
and inaccurate.”

Community Health Systems disclosed Friday that it has received a subpoena
from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services related to an
investigation of potentially improper Medicare and Medicaid claims. It said the
subpoena concerns emergency department processes and procedures, including a
third-party software system, along with information about emergency department
physicians, including financial details. It said it will cooperate fully with
the investigation by the health department’s office of the inspector
general.

Community Health Systems said the state of Texas requested similar
information in November.

The company said it received the subpoena on April 8. The company said it
does not know if the subpoena is connected to any of the allegations in Tenet’s
lawsuit, which was filed April 11.

The company said it will address Tenet’s lawsuit in a conference call on
April 28. Community Health Systems will also discuss first-quarter results on
that conference call.

Community Health shares slid $3.92, or 12.3 percent, to $27.98 in pre-market
trading while Tenet shares fell 13 cents to $6.53.

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