Federal prosecution of health care fraud.

Volume 94 No. 9 September 2011 was sentenced to168 months in prison and ordered to pay $9.5 million in restitution for his part in the five-year long scheme. In December, the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals paid $7.9 million to resolve allegations that the hospitals wrongfully obtained excessive outlier payments. In March of 2010, a cancer center in Florida agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that the center and one of its physicians improperly inflated claims by billing for services not rendered, services not supervised, duplicative and unnecessary services, and upcoded services. Finally, in Chicago, a medical center agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it had submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by entering into an improper leasing arrangement for office space with certain physicians in violation of the Stark Law, which prohibits a hospital from profiting from patient referrals made by a physician with whom the hospital has an improper financial arrangement.