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A chiropractic clinic in Williamsburg will pay $650,000 to settle claims it improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid, reports Trent Knuckles for The News Journal of Corbin. (News Journal graphic)
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- Pikeville Medical Center Agrees To Pay $36,000 To Settle Claim That It Improperly Billed Medicare
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Chiropractic clinic to pay $650K for Medicaid and Medicare fraud
A chiropractic clinic in Williamsburg will pay $650,000 to settle claims it improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid, reports Trent Knuckles for The News Journal of Corbin. (News Journal graphic)Ho Medical Clinic, Kenneth Ho and Ana Moreno allegedly filed false claims when they billed for physician services, though they were performed by a chiropractor (chiropractors are not medical doctors); billed for unnecessary and unreasonable MRI and X-ray services; billed for work performed by unqualified personnel; and received funds for being a rural health clinic when it did not meet Medicare requirements.
Of the $650,000, $525,000 will go to the Medicare and Medicaid trust fund. The remaining sum will go to Danette Freeman, who sued the company under the False Claims Act. The investigation was conducted by the Kentucky attorney general's office, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General and the U.S. attorney's office. (Read more)
- Elizabethtown Doctors Who Paid Millions To Settle Claims Of Bill-padding Are Sued By Chemotherapy Patients
"Eight former patients or their estates have sued the Elizabethtown cancer doctors who paid the government $3.7 million last June to settle claims they extended chemotherapy treatments to pad their bills," Andrew Wolfson reports for The Courier-Journal....
- Ashland Hospital Agrees To Pay $40.9 Million To Settle Charges It Defrauded Medicare And Medicaid For Six Years
"King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland has agreed to pay $40.9 million to settle allegations that it fraudulently billed federally-funded health care programs for hundreds of unnecessary heart procedures" from 2006 through 2011, Bill Estep reports...
- St. Joseph Hospital In London Will Pay U.s. $16.5 Million To Settle Malpractice Suits Involving Unnecessary Heart Procedures
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- Pikeville Medical Center Agrees To Pay $36,000 To Settle Claim That It Improperly Billed Medicare
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The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil complaint against Villaspring Health Care and Rehabilitation in Erlanger and its parent company, Carespring Health Care Management, claiming they "billed Medicare and Medicaid for services purportedly...