Employees charged in hospital fraud
Compliance Monitor, November 8, 2006
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Ten employees from the University of Maryland Medical Center face prison sentences and fines for participating in a $1.5 million scheme to defraud the university, the Baltimore Sun reports.
The medical center runs an employee referral program that pays bonuses are paid to employees for each new employee they bring into the facility. The bonuses range from $500 to $5,000 per recruit.
Since 2003, Paula Anderson, who worked in the medical center's human resources department, has illegally sent referral bonuses to her colleagues. Those colleagues would then keep a portion of each bonus and give the rest to Anderson, according to the Sun. If convicted, those involved in the scheme could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for conspiracy, and 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count of theft of government funds.
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