Outpatient clinic settles improper billing allegations

A Chattanooga, Tenn., based outpatient clinic has agreed to pay more than $1.1 million dollars to settle allegations it knowingly and improperly billed Medicare electro-acupuncture using auricular stimulation devices. 

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Apple Corporate Wellness — now known as Bryn Medical Center and Basket Medical — offered medical and chiropractic services for pain treatment, according to an Oct. 18 Justice Department news release. The Justice Department alleged that from June 2016 to June 2017, the clinic falsely billed Medicare for electro-acupuncture devices it knew were not surgically implanted into patients and for procedures that did not involve anesthesia or take place in an operating room. 

The claims settled by the agreement are only allegations and there has been no determination of liability, the Justice Department said.  

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