Group Health Cooperative (now a subsidiary of Kaiser Permanente) – Medicare Advantage Fraud ($6.375 million)

Constantine Cannon represents whistleblower Teresa Ross against Group Health Cooperative, an insurance company that participates in the Medicare Advantage program. GHC has agreed to pay $6.375 million to resolve allegations that the insurance plan improperly collected money from the Medicare Advantage program by overstating how sick its beneficiaries were. Ms. Ross is a former employee of GHC, where she worked for 14 years; her most recent position was the director of risk adjustment services. In her complaint, Ms. Ross alleged that GHC had improperly relied on coders’ interpretations of diagnostic tests, prescriptions, and entries in problem lists to come up with diagnoses and that it had also submitted other codes that were false because they were diagnosed by inappropriate providers, fell outside service year, or the patient had no evidence of a current condition. See Press Release and Whistleblower Insider for more.

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