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Today the Lexington Herald-Leader reported:
"A southern Kentucky hospital will repay $16.5 million to the federal government to settle claims that it submitted false or fraudulent Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid claims for completing surgeries to implant unnecessary coronary stents and pacemakers and perform coronary artery bypass grafting.
The agreement released Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lexington covers a period from Jan. 1, 2008, through Aug. 31, 2011 at Saint Joseph Health System, which runs Saint Joseph London Hospital. The agreement also covers allegations that the hospital, which serves a primarily rural swath of counties near the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, violated a federal anti-kickback law by entering into a sham agreement with a clinic in the area."
Fraud? Kickbacks? 2008, before AHA? Unnecessary open heart surgery? just to increase revenues?
I hope your wife or mother is not one of those that died...needlessly...padding the bill.
Regardless of your politics, we have to do something to control healthcare spending in America...including this kind of pure fraud....by the doctors we too often worship.
One guy did not do this alone...it was a group effort.
"A southern Kentucky hospital will repay $16.5 million to the federal government to settle claims that it submitted false or fraudulent Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid claims for completing surgeries to implant unnecessary coronary stents and pacemakers and perform coronary artery bypass grafting.
The agreement released Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Lexington covers a period from Jan. 1, 2008, through Aug. 31, 2011 at Saint Joseph Health System, which runs Saint Joseph London Hospital. The agreement also covers allegations that the hospital, which serves a primarily rural swath of counties near the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, violated a federal anti-kickback law by entering into a sham agreement with a clinic in the area."
Fraud? Kickbacks? 2008, before AHA? Unnecessary open heart surgery? just to increase revenues?
I hope your wife or mother is not one of those that died...needlessly...padding the bill.
Regardless of your politics, we have to do something to control healthcare spending in America...including this kind of pure fraud....by the doctors we too often worship.
One guy did not do this alone...it was a group effort.