Items Tagged ‘false claims’

August 3, 2012

Mayo Settles False-Billing Suit for $1.26 million

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The Mayo Clinic has agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle a federal lawsuit that accused it of billing the government for thousands of lab tests that were never performed. The U.S. Department of Justice and four whistleblowers had accused the Rochester clinic of “knowingly” submitting false claims for nonexistent pathology tests over a period […]

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Tags: false claims, federal lawsuit, Inspector General of Health and Human Servces, Lamont Pugh III, Star Tribune, U.S. Department of Justice