{"id":26946,"date":"2016-10-03T17:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T00:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=26946"},"modified":"2016-10-03T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T01:01:53","slug":"major-healthcare-provider-pays-513-million-for-million-for-illegal-kickbacks-for-patient-referrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=26946","title":{"rendered":"Major Healthcare Provider Pays $513 Million for Illegal Patient Referral Kickbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>ATLANTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A major U.S. hospital chain, <strong>Tenet Healthcare Corporation<\/strong>, and two of its Atlanta-area subsidiaries will pay over $513 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to a scheme to defraud the federal government and to pay kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals, officials announced Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12931 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/fraud-medicare-card-cube-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"fraud-medicare-card-cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" \/>In addition, two Tenet subsidiaries, Atlanta Medical Center Inc. and North Fulton Medical Center Inc., have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the federal government. They will pay health care kickbacks and bribes in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The plea agreements remain subject to acceptance by the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The case was filed under the federal False Claims Act, and the whistleblower will get more than $84 million as a result of the settlement, according to officials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As alleged in the criminal information as well as civil complaints, filed by the department and the state of Georgia in 2014 and 2013, \u00a0Atlanta Medical Center Inc., North Fulton Medical Center Inc., Spalding Regional Medical Center Inc. and Hilton Head Hospital paid bribes and kickbacks to the owners and operators of prenatal care clinics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The clinics were serving primarily undocumented Hispanic women in return for the referral of those patients for labor and delivery medical services at Tenet hospitals, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These kickbacks and bribes allegedly helped Tenet obtain more than $145 million in Medicaid and Medicare funds based on the resulting patient referrals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to the criminal information, as part of the scheme, expectant mothers were in some cases told the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The prenatal care clinics that Medicaid would cover the costs associated with their childbirth and the care of their newborn only if they delivered at one of the Tenet hospitals, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"criminal_justice_jurisprudence (2)\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>In other cases, they were simply told that they were required to deliver at one of the Tenet hospitals, leaving them with the false belief that they could not select the hospital of their choice, according to authorities. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The criminal information alleges that as a result of these false and misleading statements and representations, many expectant mothers traveled long distances from their homes to deliver at the Tenet hospitals, placing their health and safety, and that of their newborn babies, at risk, officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Up until April 2016, Atlanta Medical Center Inc. and North Fulton Medical Center Inc. owned and operated acute-care hospitals located in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur Medicaid system is premised on a patient\u2019s ability to make an informed choice about where to seek care without undue interference from those seeking to make a profit,\u201d said U.S. Attorney John Horn.\u00a0 \u201cTenet cheated the Medicaid system by paying bribes and kickbacks to a pre-natal clinic to unlawfully refer over 20,000 Medicaid patients to the hospitals.\u00a0 In so doing, they exploited some of the most vulnerable members of our community and took advantage of a payment system designed to ensure that underprivileged patients have choices in receiving care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhen pregnant women seek medical advice, they deserve to receive care untainted by bribes and illegal kickbacks,\u201d said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bitkower.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Adding, \u201cThe Tenet case is the first brought through the assistance of the Criminal Division\u2019s corporate health care fraud strike force.\u00a0 This is one of more than a dozen active corporate investigations by the strike force, and we are committed to following evidence of health care fraud wherever it leads \u2013 whether it be individual physicians, pharmacy owners or corporate boardrooms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Atlanta Medical Center Inc. and North Fulton Medical Center Inc. were charged in a criminal information filed today in federal court in Atlanta with conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing the lawful government functions of HHS and to violate the AKS, which, among other things, prohibits payments to induce the referral of patients for services paid for by federal health care programs.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9884 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Medical-Logo-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Medical Logo\" width=\"300\" 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Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office of the Northern District of Georgia related to the charges in the criminal information.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">THSM is the parent company of Atlanta Medical Center Inc., North Fulton Medical Center Inc., Spalding Regional Medical Center Inc. and Hilton Head Hospital, and employed their executives.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">THSM is a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corporation.\u00a0 Under the terms of the NPA, THSM and Tenet will avoid prosecution if they, among other requirements, cooperate with the government\u2019s ongoing investigation and enhance their compliance and ethics program and internal controls.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tenet has also agreed to retain an independent compliance monitor to address and reduce the risk of any recurrence of violations of the AKS by any entity owned in whole, or in part, by Tenet.\u00a0 The term of THSM\u2019s and Tenet\u2019s obligations under the NPA is three years, but the NPA may be extended for up to one year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26950 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/whistleblower-protection-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"whistleblower-protection\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/whistleblower-protection-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/whistleblower-protection.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In the civil settlement, Tenet agreed to pay $368 million to the federal government, the state of Georgia and the state of South Carolina to resolve legal claims filed under False Claims Acts or whistleblowers law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> The acts permit whistleblowers to file suit for false claims against the government entities and to share in any recovery.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The federal share of the civil settlement is $244.2 million, the state of Georgia will recover $122.8 million and the state of South Carolina will recover $892,125.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The whistleblower <strong>Ralph D. 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