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Albany N.Y.—According to The Associated Press, recent lawsuits allege that four New York hospitals (Columbia Memorial Physicians Hospital, Long Beach Medical Center, New York Downtown Hospital, St. Joseph’s Medical Center) paid kickbacks to elicit patients for drug treatment programs and billed Medicaid for unnecessary services that lacked state certification. Separately, the suits accuse four of [...]
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HealthSouth is the nation’s largest provider of inpatient rehab services and was formerly one of the largest providers of outpatient rehab services, ambulatory surgery services and diagnostic imaging services until it sold those businesses earlier this year. However, illegal Kickbacks and False Claims have cost HealthSouth Corporation and two of its physicians nearly $15 million. [...]
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Westchester Medical Center received a subpoena on January 31, 2007 from Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asking for information going back to 1997, primarily related to the hospital’s relationships with its doctors. Under Stark and anti-kickback laws, hospitals are not permitted to give physicians inducements for patient [...]
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A May 9, 2006, Los Angeles Times article (Lisa Girion, U.S. Programs May Exclude Tenet Hospital, The Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2006 at C9), it was reported that, “… the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General notified Dallas-based Tenet that it intended to exclude Alvarado Hospital Medical Center in San [...]
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