The federal government claimed that, from July 2006 through July 2008, the hospital system billed Medicare for certain interventional cardiac and vascular procedures as inpatient care when those services should have been billed as outpatient care or observational status.
The settlement resolves a whistleblower suit filed by a former Morton Plant Hospital employee, who will receive $1.8 million from the settlement.
Morton Plant owns, operates or is affiliated with six hospitals, which are part of the greater Clearwater-based BayCare Health System.
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