by Ben Vernia | March 10th, 2010
The Department of Justice announced on March 9 that Chicago’s Rush University Hospital had paid $1,547,200 plus interest to settle False Claims Act allegations. According to the Department:
Rush is alleged to have submitted false claims to Medicare during the period 2000 through 2007 by entering into certain leasing arrangements for office space with two individual physicians and three physician practice groups that violated the Stark Law.
The case was brought as a qui tam in 2004 by two relators, who will receive $270,760 – a 17.5% share (excluding interest).
