The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, dba Carolinas Healthcare System (CHS), has agreed pay the Government $ 6.5 million according to U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose. This was to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act, by “up-coding” claims for urine drug tests in order to receive higher payment than allowed for the tests. The settlement is the result of the coordinated effort between the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina, the State of North Carolina’s Medicaid Investigations Division and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General.
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