When does the 60-day clock start for an identified overpayment of federal funds to become a reverse false claim under amendments to the False Claims Act? A closely watched SDNY qui tam case may provide an answer.
In June, the United States and New York intervened in United States v. Continuum Health Partners, Inc.,
At the end of June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan filed a False Claims Act complaint against Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, and Continuum Health Partners, United States v. Continuum Health Partners, Inc., alleging that defendants had knowingly failed to return overpayments owed to Medicaid arising out of a
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York recently announced the settlement of a health care False Claims Act case against Beth Israel Medical Center for fraudulently inflating its fees for services provided to Medicare patients in order to obtain larger “outlier payments.” Beth Israel agreed to pay over $13 million to