March 01, 2018
The federal government will pay two whistleblowers $1.3 million for filing a False Claims Act suit against Mount Sinai Hospital that resulted in a $4.4 million settlement with the government, according to a filing in New York federal court Wednesday.
October 20, 2016
Mount Sinai Hospital on Wednesday attacked a False Claims act suit targeting its switching of physician names on Medicare and Medicaid billing forms, telling a New York federal judge that misidentification wasn't material under the U.S. Supreme Court's Escobar decision.
September 02, 2016
Two Mount Sinai Hospital workers bringing False Claims Act allegations against their employer asked a New York federal magistrate judge Thursday to reconsider her refusal to let them depose a second witness from the state Health Department, arguing the decision strayed from the precedent set in the U.S. Supreme Court's Escobar ruling.
January 06, 2016
Two whistleblowers who brought False Claims Act allegations against Mount Sinai Hospital cannot be countersued for accessing private patient records, activity that is protected by anti-retaliation provisions of the law, they told a New York federal judge Tuesday.
November 09, 2015
Mount Sinai Hospital can't dodge a lawsuit by two of its employees alleging the radiology department was falsifying bills sent to Medicare and New York's Medicaid program, a New York federal judge said on Monday.
January 22, 2015
Mount Sinai Hospital whistleblowers on Wednesday rejected allegations they took confidential patient records to build their case, urging a New York federal judge not to dismiss their claims that the hospital fraudulently billed Medicare and New York's Medicaid program.
December 18, 2014
Mount Sinai Hospital on Wednesday urged a New York federal judge to dismiss a whistleblower suit claiming the hospital fraudulently billed Medicare and the New York Medicaid program, arguing that the relators in the case took advantage of their positions at the hospital to improperly access patient records used in the suit.