Hill-Rom Company, a national supplier of durable medical equipment based in Batesville, Ind., has agreed to pay $41.8 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare, according to a news release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.…
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Steven H. Stern, MD, and his practice, Kentuckiana Center for Better Bone and Joint Health in Louisville, Ky., have agreed to pay nearly $350,000 to settle claims of Medicare overbilling, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.…
Kentucky Senator Tim Shaughnessy said physicians at University of Louisville’s medical school used nearly $4.8 million in state Medicaid funds to give themselves bonuses, according to a Courier Journal report. University of Louisville and its University Hospital and University Physicians…
Two hospitals within New York’s Catholic Health Services of Long Island system have agreed to pay a total of $2.6 million for physician contracts that did not comply with federal regulations, according to a Long Island Business News report. The…
Guidant, a subsidiary of Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific, has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle False Claims Act charges over the company’s alleged cost inflation for pacemakers and defibrillators, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.…
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The U.S. Department of Justice has formally closed its investigation into the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Highmark’s roles in possible anticompetitive practices, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report. The investigation began in 2007 as part of a national…
Gibson General Hospital in Princeton, Ind., has made a civil settlement to resolve allegations that the hospital assumed billing for its surgery center to receive larger Medicare and Medicaid payments than if the billing had come from the surgery center,…
Here is a list of 15 of the biggest False Claims Act and anti-kickback stories involving hospital and health systems in 2011. The entries are listed in chronological order.
Physicians accused of accepting kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies rarely face consequences, as none of more than 75 physicians named as participants in marketing fraud or kickback suits have been sanctioned since 2008, according to a ProPublica report. Reporters from ProPublica,…
Wheeling, W.V.-based Ohio Valley Health Services and Education will pay $3.8 million to settle allegations that the system’s hospitals submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid from Jan. 2005-Aug. 2010, according to a Wheeling Intelligencer report. U.S. Attorney William J.…