February 06, 2017
A national provider of health care in hospitals will pay more than $60 million to end allegations it routinely encouraged its staff to bill Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers for more expensive procedures than those actually performed on patients.
May 22, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice urged an Illinois federal judge Thursday to apply the same logic she used in refusing to dismiss its False Claims Act case against staffing chain IPC The Hospitalist Co. Inc. to expand its discovery abilities, saying IPC's objections misrepresent the complaint.
February 19, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice has supplied enough detail to preserve a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit accusing staffing chain IPC The Hospitalist Co. Inc. of defrauding Medicare by pressuring doctors to bill for relatively sophisticated services, an Illinois federal judge ruled this week.
September 19, 2014
The federal government on Thursday hit back at IPC The Hospitalist Co. Inc.'s attempt to escape a whistleblower suit accusing the company of overbilling Medicare and Medicaid, telling an Illinois federal court that IPC had misrepresented its complaint in a bid to dismiss the case.
August 14, 2014
California-based physician group practice IPC The Hospitalist Co. Inc. asked an Illinois federal judge on Wednesday to throw out a False Claims Act suit over alleged overbilling of hospital evaluation and management services to Medicare and Medicaid, arguing the government's claims are too vague and generalized to stand.