March 26, 1999
Federal Lawsuit Charges U. of Chicago With Overbilling Medicare and Medicaid
The Justice Department has sued the University of Chicago, accusing the institution's hospital of defrauding the government by purposely overbilling Medicare and Medicaid.
The lawsuit charges, among other things, that 40 per cent of the most-expensive outpatient Medicare claims submitted by the university were fraudulently "upcoded" to bring in more federal reimbursement than the procedures actually cost the
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