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| Health Care Auditing Strategies |
| April 2008 |
| Protect compliance practices |
| A pending federal lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare Corporation's former general counsel and compliance officer Christi R. Sulzbach offers a worst-case cautionary tale for those charged with certifying a healthcare system's integrity.
The government, in its September 2007 lawsuit, alleges that Sulzbach was aware a Tenet-owned hospital in Florida illegally billed Medicare for referrals from doctors whose contracts violated the Stark Law. It further alleges that, despite this knowledge, Sulzbach signed several declarations in the late 1990s indicating that Tenet was in compliance with all federal program legal requirements. |
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