A settlement has been reached in a whistleblower class action lawsuit brought against Family Dermatology P.C. who is accused of engaging in improper financial relationships with a number of its employed physicians.
The whistleblowers will collectively receive more than $584,000 from the government's recovery.
The government's case stemmed for a series of whistleblower lawsuit, the first of which was filed in July of 2011. The cases alleged that Family Dermatology’s financial relationships with a number of these physicians did not comply with the requirements of the Stark Statute, and that Family Dermatology improperly billed Medicare for dermatopathology analyses performed by Nelson Dermatopathology on specimens that were sent to the laboratory by these employed physicians.
