Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and South Carolina–will pay a combined $9.4 million to settle a whistleblower suit by two former employees of the company responsible for the therapy–Kyphon, Inc., and now part of Medtronic Spine LLC. The Department of Justice announced the hospitals were accused of keeping patients overnight after having kyphoplasty, typically an outpatient back procedure, merely so that they could bill Medicare at a higher rate.
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Oaks Diagnostics of Beverly Hills, California, has paid the federal government $647,000 to settle allegations that it filed false claims with Medicare for unnecessary radiological tests, reported the U.S. Attorney’s Office Central District of California. They have settled without admitting any wrong doing. See article at HealthImaging.com:
http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=23030:california-rad-provider-settles-whistleblower-case-for-647k