Monitor finds fraud at New Jersey medical school
Compliance Monitor, November 22, 2006
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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey illegally billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for $36 million, according to an investigation conducted by federal fraud monitor Herbert J. Stern, a retired US district judge.
The university also paid $5.7 million to doctors since 2002 for illegal referrals, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Stern reported that cardiologists were given no-show teaching jobs at the university, and earned salaries of $150,000 or more for referring heart patients to the school.
University officials also paid $2.2 million to settle a whistleblower's lawsuit, but the payout wasn't reported to the monitor or properly authorized by the school, Stern concluded.
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