Artificial Grafts

Phoenix Hospital and Two Doctors' Groups to Pay U.S. $6.7 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Published in Drug Law Weekly, November 20th, 2007

Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix and two groups of doctors associated with the health care facility have agreed to pay the United States $6,720,412 to settle allegations that they improperly billed Medicare for non-covered procedures in which artificial graft devices were used to treat patients with aortic aneurysms, the Justice Department announced.

Some of the procedures were not covered for reimbursement by Medicare because they involved devices that were considered experimental by Medicare at the time the procedures were performed. In other cases, the procedures did not comply with approved protocols for devices that were in clinical trials. The government's...

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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2007-11-20)

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