Settlement Amount:
$23,000,000
A settlement has been reached to resolve False Claims Act allegations against 51 hospitals nationwide.
The whistleblowers' share of the settlement will be more than $3.5 million.
On February 17, 2016, the United States Department of Justice announced that has reached settlements with 51 hospitals in 15 states for more than $23 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements.
These settlements are part of a nationwide investigation into the practices of hundreds of hospitals improperly billing Medicare for these cardiac devices.
The United States Justice Department previously settled with 457 hospitals for more than $250 million in October.
