Kaiser Permanente – Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Fraud (Case Intervention)

Constantine Cannon represents Dr. James Taylor, a highly placed physician and healthcare coding expert, in False Claims Act litigation against Kaiser Permanente.  He is among a group of ten whistleblowers who accuse the large Medicare Advantage organization of knowingly submitting false claims for risk-adjusted payments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  The suit alleges that Kaiser routinely obtained fraudulently inflated risk-adjusted payments by knowingly submitting diagnosis codes for patients that were unsupported by the patients’ medical records, and the government’s intervention focuses on unsupported diagnosis codes that Kaiser allegedly improperly added through addenda to patients’ medical records.  The qui tam whistleblower suit was unsealed on July 29, 2021. See:  Taylor Amended Complaint; DOJ Press Release

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