PDF What happens when two whistleblowers separately expose widespread Medicare fraud to authorities? Other than nearly $90 million in fines, one wrongdoer loudly protests that she just lacked supporting documentation for the fraud.
Such is life in the case of medical device maker Medtronic Spine LLC and its hospital customers. After two former employees alerted the Justice Department of a scheme that ran from 2002-2008, Medtronic’s acquisition of Kyphon Inc. came back to haunt it with a $75 million fine. Kyphon made equipment and materials used to perform kyphoplasty. It promoted the procedure as a hospital money-maker if clients billed Medicare for inpatient rather than outpatient surgery.
Whistleblowers Expose Hospitals Fleecing the Public’s Back (Universal Health Care – Change.org)
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