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University of California

Medicare/Medicaid False Billings

Date: 02/01/2001 (Date of Settlement - approximate)

Misconduct Type: Government Contract Fraud

Enforcement Agency: Health and Human Servs.

Contracting Party: Health and Human Servs.

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $22,500,000

Disposition: Settlement

Synopsis: “The University of California agreed to pay the Government $22.5 million to settle allegations that the school's five teaching hospitals routinely submitted false billings to Medicare, Medicaid and other Federally-funded health programs. The alleged false claims included upcoding, as well as billing for services purportedly performed or supervised by faculty physicians - when those services were, in fact, performed by residents with little or no supervision.”