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Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta to Pay U.S. $26 Million to Settle False Claims Allegations
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, January 10th, 2008
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta Inc. and Saint Joseph's Health System Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $26 million to settle allegations that the medical facility violated the False Claims Act with regard to billing for inpatient admissions and other services, the Justice Department announced. The settlement resolves an investigation primarily focusing on Saint Joseph's Hospital's submission of Medicare claims from the years 2000 through 2005, where services that should have been billed as "outpatient visits" were charged at the higher rate as "inpatient admissions."
The settlement covers claims submitted by Saint Joseph's Hospital for short inpatient...
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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2008-01-10)
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