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- 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....
- St. Joseph London, Doctors And Others Win The First Of A Dozen Trials Over Allegations Of Unnecessary Procedures At Hospital
A jury has decided for the St. Joseph London hospital, several of its doctors and other defendants in a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring "to perform unnecessary, risky and often painful heart procedures to unjustly enrich themselves," Andrew Wolfson...
- Elizabethtown Cancer Clinic Pays $3.7 Million To Resolve Claims It Diluted Drugs, Prolonged Chemotherapy To Make More Money
Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology PLC and its owners has paid $3,739,325 to settle claims "that they submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid and the military's medical provider for extending the duration of chemotherapy infusion...
- 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...
- Pikeville Medical Center Joins Mayo Clinic Care Network
Pikeville Medical Center President Walter May and Dr. Stephen Lange, Mayo Clinic's Southeast medical director Pikeville Medical Center joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network last week, extending the clinic's knowledge and expertise to PMC staff,...
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PIkeville Medical Center agrees to pay $36,000 to settle claim that it improperly billed Medicare
Pikeville Medical Center has agreed to pay more than $36,000, but does not have to admit any wrongdoing, to settle a lawsuit that accused it of improperly billing Medicare.
The suit was brought by Dr. Michael Fletcher, director of the pain management clinic from May 2005 to July 2007. "The hospital used improper billing codes for the pain management clinic, which indicated services were provided in a private physician's office, rather than a clinic," reports Brett Barrouquere of The Associated Press.
Fletcher alleged the same was being done at the hospital's radiation oncology and medical oncology units and told hospital administration as much, but nothing was done. Fletcher will receive $7,228 as part of the settlement of the suit, filed under the federal False Claims Act. (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....
- St. Joseph London, Doctors And Others Win The First Of A Dozen Trials Over Allegations Of Unnecessary Procedures At Hospital
A jury has decided for the St. Joseph London hospital, several of its doctors and other defendants in a lawsuit that accused them of conspiring "to perform unnecessary, risky and often painful heart procedures to unjustly enrich themselves," Andrew Wolfson...
- Elizabethtown Cancer Clinic Pays $3.7 Million To Resolve Claims It Diluted Drugs, Prolonged Chemotherapy To Make More Money
Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology PLC and its owners has paid $3,739,325 to settle claims "that they submitted false claims for payment to the Medicare, Medicaid and the military's medical provider for extending the duration of chemotherapy infusion...
- 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...
- Pikeville Medical Center Joins Mayo Clinic Care Network
Pikeville Medical Center President Walter May and Dr. Stephen Lange, Mayo Clinic's Southeast medical director Pikeville Medical Center joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network last week, extending the clinic's knowledge and expertise to PMC staff,...