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Medicare and Medicaid
New Jersey University Hospital to Pay Additional $2 Million to Resolve Fraud Claims That Facility Double Billed Medicaid
June 28th, 2009
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) has agreed to pay the United States $2 million to resolve federal civil fraud allegations that its hospital defrauded Medicaid, the Justice Department announced. From 1993 to 2004, UMDNJ's University Hospital submitted claims to Medicaid for outpatient physician services that were also being billed by doctors working in the hospital's outpatient centers. By submitting duplicate claims for payment, University Hospital effectively doubled billed the government's Medicaid program. "Today's settlement demonstrates that the Department of Justice will not tolerate fraud on our Medicaid programs, which were created...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2009-06-28)
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