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Earlier this week, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey agreed to pay the federal government $2 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that it bilked Medicaid in a double-billing scheme that started in 1993 and ended in 2003, according to the Department of Justice. The settlement was the second time UMDNJ [...]
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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 June 9, 2009, according to a press release on PR Newswire. From 1993 to 2004, UMDNJ’s University Hospital submitted claims to [...]
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A scheme to defraud Medicare resulted in a three year prison term for the owner of medical supply companies in Kansas City and Raytown, Missouri, who sent claims to Medicare totaling more than $5 million dollars for power wheelchairs but substituted a less expensive motortized scooter to nearly 1,000 beneficiaries. His co-defendants, which included two [...]
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A federal monitor’s report found that the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey made since 2002, $5.7 million in illegal payments to physicians in exchange for their heart patient referrals. As the result of these patient referrals, physicians were given “no-show” teaching jobs in excess of $150,000 per year. The monitoring system was [...]
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