Cardiology
U.S. Joins Case Against Cincinnati Health Care Facilities Alleging Kickbacks for Cardiac Services
Published in MD Week, April 18th, 2008
The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit accusing The Christ Hospital, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and The Ohio Heart Health Center of defrauding federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced. The lawsuit alleges that Christ Hospital, a full service Cincinnati-based hospital and formerly a member of The Health Alliance, and Ohio Heart, the largest cardiology group in that region of Ohio, devised a scheme that provided cardiologists improper financial incentives in exchange for generating revenue for the hospital.
The focus of the lawsuit is an outpatient cardiology testing unit within Christ Hospital known as the Heart...
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Source: MD Week (2008-04-18)
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