September 17, 2019

Physician Alliance Ltd. (PAL) and its medical director agreed to pay $178,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations for improperly billing Medicare for providing patients with electric acupuncture medical devices that is affixed behind patients’ ears. Since Medicare does not reimburse for acupunctural devices, PAL allegedly billed Medicare for the “implantation of neurostimulator electrodes,” a procedure that requires surgery and for which Medicare reimburses in the thousands of dollars. The case was investigated out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. DOJ

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