An accounting firm is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Calif., claiming that the firm helped cover up alleged improper payments to physicians and filed false claims to Medicare, according to a report by the Ventura County Star.
A lawyer for the accounting firm, Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf in Santa Barbara, Calif., said hospital officials had ample evidence to raise their suspicions over former CEO Michael Bakst's alleged financial improprieties.
Without admitting wrongdoing, the hospital paid the federal government about $1.5 million to settle allegations and Mr. Bakst agreed to pay the government $64,000 involving the same allegations.
Read the Ventura County Star report on Community Memorial Hospital.
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