The settlement comes after the health system voluntarily submitted written disclosures to the Justice Department and the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, according to a Nov. 15 Justice Department news release. Inova disclosed that between Jan. 1, 2020, and Aug. 31 2020, it submitted claims for sterilization and hysterectomy procedures that contained documentation that had been improperly modified by, or at the request of, one or more Inova employees.
Inova conducted an internal investigation, took remedial actions and agreed that $1.6 million it received from Medicaid was improper.
The settlement resolves federal and state False Claims Act allegations, according to the release. The Justice Department said that Inova received full credit under its guidelines for taking disclosure, cooperation and remediation into account in False Claims Act cases.
Inova did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
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