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Adventist Health System has agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits that accused the hospital chain of making illegal payments to doctors in exchange for referrals.   Florida-based Adventist Health has 44 hospitals in 10 states, including 2 in Georgia.   Adventist paid bonuses to doctors based on a formula that “improperly took Read More »

An administrator at a Veterans Affairs office in Federal Way should have faced discipline when leaders learned she’d been falsifying records about her meetings with patients.   Instead, she received positive performance reviews and kept her job, according to a federal VA whistleblower investigation sent to Congress and President Obama this week.   The investigation Read More »

Report Backs VA Whistleblower Claims.  They blew the lid off the problems plaguing the Phoenix VA healthcare system.   Now a new report from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel is backing up whistleblower claims that veterans are not getting the care they need at the VA.   The report goes so far as to Read More »

Broward Health pays nearly $70 million to settle fraud case; whistleblower named Federal officials Tuesday revealed the identity of a Fort Lauderdale orthopedic surgeon who blew the whistle on illegal physician kickbacks, complicit hospital administrators and negligent financial oversight at taxpayer-supported Broward Health, leading the public hospital system to pay nearly $70 million to settle Read More »

Columbus Regional Healthcare System and Dr. Andrew Pippas have agreed to settle whistleblower claims that they incorrectly billed governmental insurers and violated the False Claims Act.   Dr. Andrew Pippas, medical director of the John B. Amos Cancer Center, has agreed to pay $425,000 to settle billing claims against him.   Columbus Regional has agreed to pay Read More »