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'High-stakes' decision | Tuomey's adverse verdict may have lingering effects

May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine

The next time whistle-blower attorney Joel Androphy sits down for a settlement conference with hospital lawyers, he'll have a potent new tool in his arsenal: last week's $39 million Stark law jury verdict against Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C.
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Jury rules Tuomey Healthcare violated Stark in claims worth $39M

By Joe Carlson | May 08, 2013 | Basic Web

A, jury concluded that Tuomey Healthcare in Sumter, S.C., violated the False Claims Act by submitting tens of thousands of illegal bills to Medicare worth $39 million.
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Regional News/West: Two Montana hospitals pay $4 million | Following internal review, Sisters of Charity settles Medicare fraud claims

By Joe Carlson | May 04, 2013 | Print Magazine

Two Montana hospitals sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System are paying federal authorities $4 million after an internal review turned up more than 100 potentially illegal arrangements for paying doctors.
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Mont. hospitals to pay feds $4M over arrangements with docs

By Joe Carlson | May 01, 2013

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Updated protocol | Guide clarifies self-disclosure for violations

By Joe Carlson | April 20, 2013 | Print Magazine

Healthcare lawyers are praising a revised how-to guide from HHS' inspector general's office that clarifies the leniency and timeframe that healthcare companies can expect when they turn themselves in for potentially fraudulent financial arrangements.
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Feds issue updated protocol on fraud self-disclosure

By Joe Carlson | April 17, 2013 | Basic Web

Though it's been an open secret for years, federal officials are today acknowledging for the first time in writing that healthcare companies that turn themselves in for certain types of Medicare fraud will probably only have to pay back 1½ times the amount of money involved.
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Second Tuomey trial may decide hospital's future

By Joe Carlson | April 15, 2013 | Basic Web

South Carolina jurors may render a verdict that would put Tuomey Healthcare System out of business, but they won't know about that risk beforehand.
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Intermountain to pay $25.5 million to settle Stark case

By Joe Carlson | April 03, 2013 | Basic Web

Intermountain Healthcare, the largest health system in Utah, agreed to pay more than $25 million to resolve self-disclosed allegations that it illegally paid bonuses to doctors based on how much the system earned from their patient referrals.
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Lawmaker urges extension of safe harbor for EHRs

By Joe Carlson | March 28, 2013 | Basic Web

Exceptions to the Stark law and the anti-kickback statute to let hospitals give EHRs to doctors are due to expire at the end of the year, and observers say little is being done to renew them.
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Pulled in two directions | Providers pursuing coordinated care confused by antitrust actions

By Joe Carlson | December 15, 2012 | Print Magazine

The collision of old-world antitrust enforcement and new ideas like accountable care, bundled payments, value-based purchasing and patient-centered medical homes has ratcheted up the uncertainty over healthcare deals.
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