August 8, 2019

California-based Beaver Medical Group LP and one of its physicians, Dr. Sherif Khalil, have agreed to pay $5 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act.  According to another physician formerly employed at Beaver, the defendants allegedly submitted false diagnoses to Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs) for the Medicare beneficiaries under its care, which caused Medicare to pay a needlessly inflated rate of reimbursement.  The whistleblower, Dr. David Nutter, will receive a relator’s share of $850,000 from the settlement proceeds.  DOJ

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