Sutter Health – Medicare Advantage Fraud ($90 million)
Constantine Cannon represented whistleblower
Kathy Ormsby in a False Claims Act litigation against
Sutter Health and its affiliates that resulted in a
$90 million settlement – the largest Medicare Advantage FCA settlement to date against a hospital system, and the second largest reported Medicare Advantage fraud settlement to date. Ms. Ormsby, a former Risk Adjustment Factor Project Manager at Sutter Health affiliate
Palo Alto Medical Foundation, alleged the Sutter Health defendants inflated the number and severity of Medicare Advantage patient diagnoses, manipulated patient records, ignored audit “red flags,” and engaged in other misconduct to increase patient risk scores and obtain Medicare Advantage payments to which they were not entitled. In Spring 2019, the Government intervened in Ms. Ormsby’s case as to PAMF, and Ms. Ormsby continued to pursue her claims against the other Sutter Health affiliates on a non-intervened basis. This settlement resolves all claims and follows Sutter’s unsuccessful effort to dismiss both the complaints. Read more:
Press Release;
Whistleblower Insider.