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Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, a New Jersey-based hospital, has agreed to pay $6.35 million to settle allegations that the hospital defrauded Medicare, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced March 19, 2010. Two lawsuits filed against the Hamilton, N.J., facility alleged that the hospital fraudulently inflated its charges to Medicare patients to [...]
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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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Four Miami-area physicians and medical assistants pleaded guilty March 23, 2009 to a $10 million Medicare fraud scheme involving HIV infusion clinics, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. The four defendants worked at Midway Medical Center Inc. a Miami clinic that purported to specialize in the treatment of HIV patients. One of [...]
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The Government announced today that a former employee of Victory Memorial Hospital’s qui tam lawsuit has resulted in a settlement with the United States of at least $2.3 million to resolve claims that the hospital defrauded the Medicare program. The Medicare Fraud settlement covers allegations that Victory Memorial submitted Cost Reports for 1996 and 1997 [...]
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