Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Disability Law Blogs -> Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Disability Law

: Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog

Texas Hospital Settles Medicare Fraud Allegations

By Robert Kraft

ADVERTISEMENTS

The Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram reported, "Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital will pay the federal government just shy of $1 million to settle allegations that it submitted improper claims to Medicare for interpretation of blood tests that in reality didn't need analysis, the US attorney's office announced." The attorney's office said that "the former president of the hospital arranged to pay a doctors' group for uncompensated charity care and running a blood gas lab, though a contract required that payments be made only for interpretation of blood tests."

The Dallas Business Journal reports, "Investigators claim that instead of reducing the compensation or revising the contract, Arlington Memorial's then-president agreed to pay the physician group." The attorney's office said that "the corporate parent of Arlington Memorial Hospital disclosed" the payments "to the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services." Still, "Arlington Memorial Hospital has not admitted any wrongdoing and denies all liability."

From the American Association for Justice news release.

Full post as published by Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).