Hospitals Settle with DOJ Over Medicare Billing
January 5th, 2011
The Justice Department has reached a $6.3 million settlement with seven hospitals in six southeastern states in connection with allegations that the facilities made improper billings to Medicare.
The hospitals, located in Florida, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Alabama, are charged with performing kyphoplasty as an in-patient procedure to increase Medicare billings, when kyphoplasty could often have been safely and more cheaply performed as an out-patient procedure.
For more information, see the full press release.
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