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Medicare and Medicaid
Pennsylvania Hospital Pays $1.9 Million to Settle Medicare Fraud Case Brought by Whistleblower
December 14th, 2008
St. Vincent Health System Inc., based in Erie, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $1.9 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged the hospital submitted reimbursement claims to Medicare that greatly exceeded its actual costs. The settlement by St. Vincent -- filed in district court in Newark, New Jersey, today - is the latest of several settlements by hospitals named in a "qui tam" (whistleblower) lawsuit brought in 2005 by Anthony Kite, an independent hospital consultant in New Jersey. Kite alleged in his lawsuit that St. Vincent inflated its reimbursement claims to Medicare from 2001 to 2003 to receive...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-12-14)
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