DOTmed December 28, 2023
After nine years, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced a settlement with Indiana-based Community Health Network (Community) for $345 million concerning healthcare fraud claims on Medicare spanning 2008 to 2020.
The settlement comes after finance and operations executive Thomas Fischer turned whistleblower and sued his former employer, Community. Fischer’s fraud complaint included allegations that Community violated the federal Stark Law, which prohibits payments of any kind — including inflated salaries — to physicians to influence where they treat or refer patients.
The DOJ supported Fischer, intervening in 2019 with its own complaint, alleging Community illegally paid physicians inflated salaries. Its complaint described the physicians’ excessive salaries as...
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