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Tenet to pay $43M to settle Medicare fraud allegations
Tenet Healthcare Corporation will be forking over $42.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling Medicare for more than two years at 25 Tenet inpatient
Upcoding trend? Hospital pays $800K over inflated malnutrition claims
Baltimore's Good Samaritan Hospital will pay about $800,000 to settle claims that it submitted inflated rates of patients suffering from malnutrition to Medicare and Medicaid for four years, reported
Providers worry about proposed CMS 10-year overpayments review
A proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to review Medicare overpayments, dating back to as far as 10 years, could mean undue administrative burdens and costs for
Bristol Hospital settles Stark violation claims
Bristol (Conn.) Hospital and Bristol Gastroenterology Associates agreed to pay $157,830 to settle allegations that they violated the Stark law and the False Claims Act by improperly billing Medicare,
Gov't recovers record-high $2.8B in whistleblower fraud cases
Breaking records, the government has recovered an all-time high $2.8 billion in false claim cases with the help of whistleblowers, officials announced yesterday. In total, the Justice Department
CVS to pay $17.5M over inflated Medicaid claims
CVS Pharmacy, the pharmacy division of CVS Caremark Corp., will pay $17.5 million to the United States and 10 states to settle False Claims Act accusations, the Department of Justice announced late
NC hospital will pay $1.9 million over false claims
Rex Healthcare, a 655-bed hospital in Raleigh, N.C., has agreed to pay $1.9 million plus interest back to the U.S. to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare by ordering higher-cost services
AHA blasts U.S. attorneys over False Claims Act
Perceived abuse of the False Claims Act, recovery audit contractors, anti-kickback laws and overly complex meaningful use rules are among the regulations that are extremely burdensome to the hospital
Phony public hospital paid Feds $14M to settle fraud charges
A hospital in Georgia paid $13.9 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the state's Medicaid program, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The settlement
Hospital owes $20M for violating Stark Act
Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, a 96-bed acute-care hospital, owes $20 million in penalties, plus millions more in False Claims Act damages, according to a press release from Stone Law Firm,
