Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit Against Adeptus Health Inc.

News provided by

Oct 27, 2016, 06:43 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP ("Robbins Geller") (http://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases/adeptus/) today announced that a class action has been commenced by an institutional investor on behalf of purchasers of Adeptus Health Inc. ("Adeptus Health" or the "Company") (NYSE: ADPT) Class A common shares (hereinafter the "common shares" or "common stock") pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's secondary public offering (the "SPO") on or about July 31, 2015, seeking to pursue remedies under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), as well as purchasers of the Company's common shares between April 23, 2015 and November 16, 2015, inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to pursue remedies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"). This action was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and is captioned Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System v. Adeptus Health Inc., et al., No. 6:16-cv-01243 (E.D. Tex.).

If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than 60 days from today. If you wish to discuss this action or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, please contact plaintiff's counsel, Samuel H. Rudman or Mario Alba Jr. of Robbins Geller at 800/449-4900 or 619/231-1058, or via e-mail at [email protected]. If you are a member of this class, you can view a copy of the complaint as filed at http://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases/adeptus/. Any member of the putative class may move the Court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member.

The complaint charges Adeptus Health, certain of its officers and directors and the underwriters of its SPO with violations of the Securities Act and/or the Exchange Act. Adeptus Health owns and operates a network of independent freestanding emergency rooms in the United States.

The complaint alleges that defendants misrepresented and failed to disclose material adverse facts regarding the Company's business and prospects, which were known to defendants or recklessly disregarded by them, including that: (a) Adeptus Health had been engaging in widespread predatory billing practices, particularly with respect to lower acuity level patients; (b) Adeptus Health's predatory billing practices subjected the Company to numerous known, but undisclosed, risks, including monetary risks, reputational risks, risks associated with improper financial reporting, civil or criminal sanctions, and even exclusion from federal and state healthcare programs; (c) the Company's financial statements had not been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles; (d) contrary to defendants' representations about the Company's practice of referring lower acuity patients to urgent care facilities, Adeptus Health routinely treated lower acuity patients and excessively billed them for the services it rendered; and (e) as a result of the foregoing, defendants lacked a reasonable basis for their positive statements about Adeptus Health's then-current business and future financial prospects.

On November 17, 2015, KUSA, an NBC-affiliated television station located in Denver, Colorado, aired a 9WANTS To Know investigative report about the billing practices at Adeptus Health's Colorado First Choice emergency rooms ("ERs"). According to the report, which had been based on "months" of investigation, the Company's First Choice ERs engaged in a pattern and practice of predatory overbilling. In response to the airing of the KUSA investigative report, the price of Adeptus Health common stock plummeted more than 22% on very heavy trading volume, falling from $59.87 per share on November 16, 2015 to $46.50 per share on November 17, 2015.

Plaintiff seeks to recover damages on behalf of all purchasers of Adeptus Health common stock during the Class Period and/or traceable to the SPO (the "Class"). The plaintiff is represented by Robbins Geller, which has extensive experience in prosecuting investor class actions including actions involving financial fraud.

Robbins Geller is widely recognized as one of the leading law firms advising U.S. and international institutional investors in securities litigation and portfolio monitoring. With 200 lawyers in 10 offices, Robbins Geller has obtained many of the largest securities class action recoveries in history and was ranked first in both the total amount and number of shareholder class action recoveries in ISS's SCAS Top 50 Report for the last two years. Robbins Geller attorneys have shaped the law in the areas of securities litigation and shareholder rights and have recovered tens of billions of dollars on behalf of the Firm's clients. Robbins Geller not only secures recoveries for defrauded investors, it also strives to implement corporate governance reforms, helping to improve the financial markets for investors worldwide. Please visit rgrdlaw.com/cases/adeptus/ for more information.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/rgrdlaw
https://twitter.com/rgrdlaw
https://www.facebook.com/rgrdlaw
https://plus.google.com/+Rgrdlaw/posts

Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20150415/198876LOGO

SOURCE Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP