February 11, 2020
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its affiliated hospital, Desert Regional Medical Center, have agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle allegations that they knowingly charged Medicare for medically unnecessary cardiac monitors, in violation of the False Claims Act. According to former DRMC employee, Michael Grace, the devices were implanted between 2014 to 2017, exposing beneficiaries to unnecessary risk and causing the government unnecessary expenses. For exposing the fraud, Grace will receive a $240,789 share of the recovery. DOJ
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