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Company: ChristianaCare
Current Parent Company: ChristianaCare
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Penalty: $42,500,000
Year: 2024
Date: January 4, 2024
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: kickbacks and bribery
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Kickbacks
Violation Description: ChristianaCare agreed to pay $42.5 million to resolve allegations of health care fraud arising under the federal False Claims Act and the Delaware False Claims and Reporting Act. In a complaint filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act in 2017, ChristianaCare's former chief compliance officer alleged that ChristianaCare had provided illegal remuneration to non-employee neonatologists and surgeons in the form of services from ancillary support providers (including nurse practitioners, hospitalists, and physician assistants) to inpatients at ChristianaCare hospitals. The lawsuit alleged that the services of the ancillary support providers impermissibly sought to induce those neonatologists and surgeons to refer their patients to ChristianaCare hospitals and created financial relationships between the non-employee providers and ChristianaCare. As a result, the complaint alleged, ChristianaCare'ss claims to government-funded healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, for the care it provided to the referred patients during their hospitalization violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the physician self-referral law, also known as the Stark Law.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-District of Delaware
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Delaware
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Delaware
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: non-profit
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
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