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Did Medicare Fraud Settlement Cause A New Jersey Hospital To Close Its Doors?

The future of Saint Barnabas Health Care System has now become certain; it has decided to close Union Hospital in Union, New Jersey.  The Vice President of Saint Barnabas Health Care System denied that the hospital’s deficit had anything to do with the $265 million settlement Saint Barnabas agreed to pay in the wake of, what federal prosecutors called “one of the most lucrative Medicare fraud schemes in the nation’s history.”  Administrators said that the closing will leave a void in the community.  

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Category Medicare Fraud Posted March 23rd, 2007

Medical Biller Nabbed in Medicare Fraud Scheme

An owner of All Medical Billing Solutions, Inc (All Medical Billing) located in Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud Medicare, pay health care kickbacks and laundering health care fraud proceeds.  Sotto’s company submitted fraudulent Project New Hope (a Miami HIV medical clinic) claims to Medicare in excess of $2.8 million and Sotto received more than $600,000 in fraud proceeds.  Five co-defendants previously plead guilty before trial and received sentences fom probation to over seven years incarceration.  To read more on this article click here, or to learn more about healthcare fraud qui tam click here.

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Posted By Marcella Auerbach Responces 0
Category Medicare Fraud Posted March 20th, 2007

New York Hospital Appears to be Under Investigation for Possible Health Care Fraud and Kickbacks

 

Westchester Medical Center received a subpoena on January 31, 2007 from Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asking for information going back to 1997, primarily related to the hospital’s relationships with its doctors.  Under Stark and  anti-kickback laws, hospitals are not permitted to give physicians inducements for patient referrals.  

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Category Medicare Fraud Posted March 14th, 2007

 

  

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