Second in a series
By WP Journal Staff
Financial difficulties surrounding one of its hospital properties apparently isn’t unique to Allegiance Health Management, the Bossier City-based company headed by Rock Bordelon which has owned Minden Medical Center since 2018.
Allegiance owns 11 hospitals in Louisiana, mostly in smaller market areas like Minden. Some reportedly have problems with vendors, and even Uncle Sam.
According to past media accounts, tax liens filed by the Internal Revenue Service against Allegiance properties through 2025 totaled almost $50 million. Those liens involve alleged failure to remit quarterly payroll taxes.
An October, 2025 article in the Ruston Daily Leader identified Ruston’s Northern Louisiana Medical Center (NLMC), Acadian Medical Center (Eunice) and Mercy Regional Medical Center in Ville Platt as Allegiance-owned properties that had been targets of IRS liens.
Also, Allegiance-owned properties in Leesville, Oakdale and Marksville reportedly have been subjects of IRS liens.
To date, some liens, which records show were filed as early as 2019, reportedly have been satisfied. A records search at the Webster Parish Courthouse showed no IRS liens have been filed against Minden Medical Center.
Allegiance Health Management reportedly has also been hit with several major lawsuits over the years, including a $1.7 million False Claims Act settlement in 2018 for improper Medicare billing for therapy services. The Dept. of Justice alleged Allegiance billed Medicare for unnecessary or unreasonable intensive outpatient psychotherapy services from 2005 through 2013.
That lawsuit and eventual settlement involved four hospitals: two in Texas, one in Arkansas and one in Louisiana (Many).
In 2010, a state appellate court upheld a lower court decision which forced Allegiance to pay $575,696.68 (plus interest, attorney fees and court costs) to settle a lawsuit filed by Louisiana Health Care Group (LHC). That suit involved Bienville Medical Center in Arcadia.
According to the suit, the 2008 sale of Bienville Medical to Allegiance included a provision for LHC to retain certain account-receivable assets. Those assets were allegedly collected but never paid to JHC.
Allegiance is also the subject of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
According to a January, 2025 EEOC news release, Allegiance “… violated federal law by requiring applicants and employees to provide personal disability-related information and by maintaining an inflexible leave policy that did not allow for reasonable accommodation.”
EEOC filed suit based on a charge of discrimination filed by an environmental technician employed at Byrd Regional Hospital, located in Leesville, Louisiana, and operated by Allegiance. The EEOC said Byrd Hospital subjected the employee to the medical inquiries and fired her while she recovered from a heart attack because she did not qualify for further leave.
In addition to Minden, Allegiance manages hospitals located in Arcadia, Ruston, Winnfield, Leesville, Many, Marksville, Oakdale, Ville Platte, Eunice and Dequincy.
According to the company’s web site, other properties include Allegiance Health Center of Monroe, Allegiance Specialty Hospital in Greenville, MS and Allegiance Behavioral Center of Plainview, TX.