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Tuomey hit hard | Hospital needs settlement on Stark violations
By Joe Carlson | October 05, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
After eight years of fierce legal confrontation with the federal government, board members at Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C., lack a permanent CEO, owe on junk-status bonds and face the highest penalties levied against a community hospital in a...
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Tuomey penalty falls to $238 million after error is discovered
By Joe Carlson | October 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A clerical error means Tuomey Healthcare System in South Carolina owes $39 million less than a federal judge ordered Tuesday. But the system still is on the hook for $238 million in damages for violating the federal False Claims Act. A settlement to resolve the case, meanwhile, may still be in the...
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Out-of-court settlement for Tuomey may be in the works following ruling against the system
By Joe Carlson | October 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A judge ordered Tuomey Healthcare System to pay $277 million for violating laws that bar hospitals from paying doctors to refer Medicare patients, though a settlement could still be in the works.
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Top Tuomey executives stepping down
By Joe Carlson | September 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
With his hospital facing at least $237 million in penalties from a huge legal fight with the federal government, Tuomey Healthcare System President and CEO Jay Cox is leaving.
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Stark threat on Medicaid | Pending case will test whether states can be held liable for providers' violations
By Joe Carlson | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
For 20 years, the CMS has not applied the federal ban on physician conflicts of interest known as the Stark law to Medicaid claims. It's focused on Medicare only. But private whistle-blowers have begun pressing for clarity on the issue because a 1993 law applying Stark to Medicaid remains on the...
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Penalty loophole | Disclosure a good deal for Stark law violators
By Joe Carlson | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Several years ago, Leake Memorial Hospital, a critical-access facility in rural central Mississippi, was on the verge of closing and was looking for a buyer when its officials discovered that the publicly run hospital was sitting on a time bomb.
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Pete Stark: Repeal the Stark law
By Joe Carlson | August 02, 2013
The healthcare world is populated by scores of legal experts who strive to keep up with the sprawling compendium of statutes, regulations and legal advisories known collectively as the “Stark law.” But the law's father, Fortney “Pete” Stark, is not one of them.
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Self-referrals costing Medicare millions, GAO report says
By Jaimy Lee | July 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Physicians who prepare and examine tissue samples in their own practices rather than using labs report higher use of the services, suggesting that the financial incentives may drive the difference.
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Whistle-blower replay | Doc turns to court in kickback case
By Joe Carlson | July 13, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Once again, a critic who says he was reprimanded for confidentially raising concerns about doctors' pay has turned into a whistle-blower for the federal government.
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Docs, Ala. system accused in $522M kickback case
By Joe Carlson | July 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Cardiologists and the Infirmary Health System in Mobile, Ala., are accused of needlessly exposing patients to radiation in a nine-year-running kickback scheme tainting an estimated $522 million in Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare reimbursements since 2004.
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