Feds Don’t Act on Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Medical City Parent Company

Feds Don’t Act on Whistleblower Lawsuit Against Medical City Parent Company: A whistleblower lawsuit accused Medical City Healthcare parent company HCA Healthcare of bilking the federal government out of millions at their rehabilitation hospitals through inflated or fraudulent billing, Modern Healthcare reports. HCA is no stranger to former employees exposing questionable Medicare billing practices, as it was subject to one of the longest government investigations which began in 1993 and concluded when a settlement was reached in 2002 which cost the hospital chain $1.7 billion, which was the largest health fraud settlement in history at the time. A former occupational therapist alleges that HCA submitted false claims across 18 states, attempting to receive higher reimbursement rates from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System rather than the Inpatient Prospective Payment System. Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals receive better reimbursement rates when 60 percent of patients have more acute needs from 13 different conditions, says