The center was accused of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE/CHAMPUS by filing false claims and billing for procedures that were never performed.
The case stemmed from a lawsuit filed by former employees of the center in 2000. According to the suit, the center billed the payors for surgeries performed by a hand surgeon at the center while he was out of state and used physician assistants to perform the procedures instead.
The center settled without admitting any wrongdoing.
Read the The Okahoman’s report on the Orthopedic and Reconstructive Center of Oklahoma fraud settlement.
