In a case involving one of the largest individual Medicare fraud settlements ever, a Tampa area dermatologist has agreed to pay $26.1 million and is being excluded from all federal health care programs. In what the Department of Justice describes as a “watershed achievement” in healthcare enforcement, dermatologist Stephen J. Wasserman, M.D., has agreed to pay $26.1 million to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”) by accepting illegal kickbacks from Tampa Pathology Laboratory (“TPL”) and billing the Medicare program for medically unnecessary services.
White Collar and Government Compliance Alert: Feds announce $26.1 million historic settlement of False Claims Act allegations against…
By McDonald Hopkins News on March 25th, 2013