The former CFO at Gibson General Hospital in Princeton, Ind., filed a complaint against the hospital, Princeton Surgery Center and local physicians, accusing the hospital of handling billing for the ASC in order to increase payments from Medicare and Medicaid.
The government’s ability to intervene in the case, if it decides it wants to do so, currently rests on whether a physician named in the lawsuit can be served a summons by the attorney for the CFO by an Aug. 29 deadline. The original deadline was July 15, but a federal magistrate has extended the deadline, according to the report. The physician’s exact whereabouts are unknown.
The lawsuit claims the hospital submitted about 65 false claims per month to Medicare from Nov. 2007 to the date of the filling, causing the government to lose an estimated $2,100 per claim. There were nine physicians and a local nurse anesthetist named in the lawsuit.
Read the Evansville Courier & Press report on the Princeton Surgery Center lawsuit.
