The Justice Department filed a suit last week in Orlando federal court against Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Health alleging the health system violated the anti-kickback law in financial arrangements with physicians and submitted false claims as a result, according to a Daytona Beach News-Journal report.
The Justice Department announced in September it would join a whistleblower suit against the health system filed by the hospital's director of physician services in 2009. The charges that came about as a result of the intervention, filed last week, allege that Halifax's contracts with three neurosurgeons and seven medical oncologists were improper, in part, because they either paid these physicians more than fair market value, were not commercially reasonable or took into consideration the volume or value of the physicians' referrals. The suit seeks to recover millions in inappropriate payments as well as damages and penalties, according to the report.
Halifax Health's General Counsel Dave Davidson denied the allegations.
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The Justice Department announced in September it would join a whistleblower suit against the health system filed by the hospital's director of physician services in 2009. The charges that came about as a result of the intervention, filed last week, allege that Halifax's contracts with three neurosurgeons and seven medical oncologists were improper, in part, because they either paid these physicians more than fair market value, were not commercially reasonable or took into consideration the volume or value of the physicians' referrals. The suit seeks to recover millions in inappropriate payments as well as damages and penalties, according to the report.
Halifax Health's General Counsel Dave Davidson denied the allegations.
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