Prime Healthcare

Prime Healthcare Services, its subsidiaries and its founder and CEO Dr. Prem Reddy will pay $65 million to settle claims they knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who required only less costly, outpatient care and billing for more expensive diagnoses than the patients had, the Justice Department said Friday.

ONTARIO, Calif. – Prime Healthcare Services, its subsidiaries and its founder and CEO Dr. Prem Reddy will pay $65 million to settle claims they knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who required only less costly, outpatient care and billing for more expensive diagnoses than the patients had, the Justice Department said Friday.

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