Date Filed:
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Settlement Amount:
$14,500,000
A settlement has been reached in a whistleblower class action lawsuit brought against Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc who is accused of overbilling Medicare and other federal health care programs.
The whistleblower will receive $2.7 million of the settlement amount.
The initital whistleblower lawsuit was filed in May 2009. The United States alleged that, between 2004 and 2012, Sound Physicians knowingly submitted to federal health benefits programs inflated claims on behalf of its hospitalist employees for higher and more expensive levels of service than were documented by hospitalists in patient medical records.
