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Company: Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente P.C., Physicians & Surgeons
Penalty: $1,830,322
Year: 2009
Date: November 12, 2009
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals-Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente P.C., Physicians & Surgeons (collectively, Kaiser NW) agreed to pay the United States $1,830,322.41 to settle False Claims Act allegations that they billed Medicare between 2000 and 2004 for hospice services that had been provided by the Kaiser Northwest Region Hospice without obtaining written certifications of terminal illness required under the federal health care program.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Oregon
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