Hickory Trail Hospital is owned and operated by Universal Health Services (UHS). UHS was under investigation for years by the Department of Justice. In 2020, at the culmination of the investigation had UHS agree to pay the United States and participating states a total of $117 million dollars to resolve allegations that its hospitals and facilities knowingly submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Dept of Veterans Affairs and Federal Employee Health Benefit Programs for inpatient behavioral health services that were not reasonable or medically necessary and/or failed to provide adequate and appropriate services for adults and children admitted to their facilities across the country. This information was published on the DOJ website, if you care to look. read more