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DOJ alleges Kaiser Permanente defrauded Medicare of $1 billion

Kaiser Permanente and members of its healthcare consortium defrauded Medicare of nearly $ 1 billion by tacking on diagnoses to patients’ medical records to earn more in reimbursement payments, the Department of Justice claims in a complaint filed Monday.

The DOJ alleges Kaiser looked through Medicare Advantage medical files and pushed physicians to retrospectively add new diagnoses that didn’t exist or were unrelated to patient visits, Bloomberg Law first reported.

“The driver was money: so that Kaiser could submit these improper diagnoses to CMS for payment,” the complaint reads.

The allegations date back to a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2013, along with five others submitted since that time. One accusation was spearheaded by James Taylor, who previously served as director of coding for Kaiser Permanente’s Medical Group in Colorado, according to Bloomberg Law.

The integrated healthcare group, which consists of health plans, physician group practices and hospitals is accused of violating the False Claims Act. In a similar case, Sutter Health and its affiliates agreed in August to pay $ 90 million to settle claims it violated the federal statute.

Kaiser Permanente maintains it has done nothing wrong and plans to “strongly” defend against lawsuits alleging otherwise, the Oakland, California-based organization said in a statement posted to its website.

“For nearly a decade, Kaiser Permanente has achieved consistently strong performance on Risk Adjustment Data Validation audits conducted by CMS,” the company said Oct. 25. “With such a strong track record with CMS, we are disappointed the Department of Justice would pursue this path.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) alleges Kaiser Permanente defrauded Medicare of $ 1 billion.

Kaiser Permanente and members of its healthcare consortium defrauded Medicare of nearly $ 1 billion by tacking on diagnoses to patients’ medical records to earn more in reimbursement payments, the DOJ claims in a complaint filed Monday.

The DOJ alleges Kaiser looked through Medicare Advantage medical files and pushed physicians to retrospectively add new diagnoses that didn’t exist or were unrelated to patient visits, Bloomberg Law first reported.  “The driver was money: so that Kaiser could submit these improper diagnoses to CMS for payment,” the complaint reads. The allegations date back to a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2013, along with five others submitted since that time. One accusation was spearheaded by James Taylor, who previously served as director of coding for Kaiser Permanente’s Medical Group in Colorado, according to Bloomberg Law. The integrated healthcare group, which consists of health plans, physician group practices and hospitals is accused of violating the False Claims Act. In a similar case, Sutter Health and its affiliates agreed in August to pay $ 90 million to settle claims it violated the federal statute. Kaiser Permanente maintains it has done nothing wrong and plans to “strongly” defend against lawsuits alleging otherwise, the Oakland-based organization said in a statement posted to its website.  “For nearly a decade, Kaiser Permanente has achieved consistently strong performance on Risk Adjustment Data Validation audits conducted by CMS,” the company said Oct. 25. “With such a strong track record with CMS, we are disappointed the Department of Justice would pursue this path.

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Florida Exec Sentenced to 20 Years in $1 Billion Healthcare Fraud Case

Former owner of a chain of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in South Florida faces a 20-year sentence after being found guilty of a decades-long scam of paying bribes and receiving kickbacks in a massive billion-dollar Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme. This extensive healthcare fraud conspiracy resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars […]

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HHS Looking Forward to Almost $3.5 Billion in Fiscal Recoveries for 2018

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) workplace of inspector general (OIG) is within the business of finding out “fraud, waste, and abuse” within the nation’s health care system, to echo the oft-repeated phrase it uses to explain its mission. And business is booming. The Office of Inspector General is anticipating $ 2.9 billion in investigatory recoveries and slightly over half a billion additional in audit recoveries for the 2018 financial year, per a report recently delivered to Congress.

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