HEALTH

Tokos Medical Corp. Faces Inquiry: The Santa Ana-based firm, which provides home health care services to pregnant women, faces an inquiry Friday by the American Medical Assn. into whether payments the company made to physicians to refer patients were ethical. Tokos provides at-home health care to women with troubled pregnancies. In a letter sent earlier this year to what Tokos says was a handful of Colorado and Utah doctors, the company offered to pay them between $100 and $200 for each of six types of Tokos prenatal care that the doctors recommended. In the same letter--which was released to reporters by the AMA--Tokos also offered to provide doctors a nurse once a month to review patient records and identify pregnant women who could be referred to the company.