DoJ settlement
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Whistleblower in hospital billing fraud case receives roughly 20% of $5.48 mil. settlement to be paid by Ft. Lauderdale's Holy Cross Hospital, Miami's South Miami Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital, and The Healthcare Company, based in Nashville, Tenn., which operates/owns four hospitals involved in the suit. DoJ had charged the hospitals with violating the False Claims Act by seeking Medicare and TRICARE reimbursement for procedures using experimental cardiac devices between 1987 and 1994. Similar settlements have been reached with other hospitals, totaling $13 mil
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