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Meharry Medical College has agreed to pay more than $100,000 to settle federal allegations that the medical school submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for services provided by unsupervised, non-physician residents.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee alleged that\u00a0from 2016 to 2020 the medical school fraudulently sought physician compensation for services provided at internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, and psychiatric outpatient facilities and for psychiatric consultations at Nashville General Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegations in this case not only constitute fraud on Medicare, but also an unacceptable risk to patients,\u201d U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis said in a news release from the Justice Department Monday. \u201cWe appreciate that Meharry agreed to implement changes to its policies to ensure compliance with Medicare\u2019s supervision requirements regarding care provided by residents.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
As part of the settlement,\u00a0Meharry Medical College did not admit wrongdoing. The school will implement a Medicare billing policy to ensure compliance and will offer annual training to faculty and incoming first-year residents about billing requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Nashville, Tennessee-based medical school did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The case was brought under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by\u00a0Dr. Rachel Thomas, former internal medicine and hospitalist physician under contract to work at Nashville General Hospital.<\/p>\n
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