The investigation comes after a former employee filed an internal report that brought in third party attorneys and auditors to investigate the medical center and sleep disorder clinic’s billing practices. After the attorneys’ and auditors’ examinations found nothing, the same former employee went to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to the report.
No details were given in the report about which specific practices were under investigation. A representative from the hospital called such investigations “not at all uncommon.”
Read the Statehouse Bureau‘s report on the Department of Justice investigation.
Read other coverage on healthcare fraud in New Jersey:
– New Jersey Home Health Care Agency Owner, Wife Plead Guilty to Defrauding Medicaid
– New Jersey Pharmacy on Probation and Ordered to Pay Restitution for Overbilling
– New Jersey Neurologist Indicted for Healthcare Fraud
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