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Federal Government Sues 27 Hospitals for Overcharging Medicare.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002
By Bruce Japsen, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 18--The federal government has sued Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Loyola University Medical Center and 25 other hospitals across the country, accusing them of overcharging Medicare for tens of millions of dollars.
The U.S. Justice Department, taking up a whistleblower's 8-year-old suit against the facilities, said the hospitals improperly charged the health insurance program for seniors for procedures involving experimental cardiac devices that had not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
At issue are payments the government made from 1986 to 1995 for so-called "investigational devices" such as certain kinds of catheters, pacemakers and stents...
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