Hospital agrees to $7 million settlement regarding payments SEMINOLE – Erroneous payments to contracted physicians for seeing Medicare and Medicaid patients will cost Seminole Hospital District (SHD) $7 million after settlement was reached on Tuesday between SHD and the U.S. and Texas governments. Under a suit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Lubbock Division, the parties joined in an “Agreed Judgement” that includes a “Settlement Agreement” for SHD to make restitution to the federal and state governments “through the United States Department of Justice and on behalf of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and ...