tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 30

Whistleblowers: DOC TARGETS WINDY CITY HOSPITALS IN TRANSPLANT QUI TAM

Feds seek big money from one facility, but co-defendants settle cheap  Allegedly lying about the seriousness of patients' conditions to allow the patients to jump ahead in the line for donated organs is at the center of a whistleblower suit unveiled July 28. According to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit charging University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid of more than $1 million by performing liver transplants that weren't yet medically necessary. The complaint - originally filed by the former...

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