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Article: Criminals, every one: when the Justice Department goes looking, there's no place for innocence.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- January 19, 1998
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All you hospital executives who plan on going to Washington for the American Hospital Association meeting this month should use the opportunity to turn yourselves in to the U.S. Justice Department.
Let's face it, you're all guilty of billing errors (excuse me, disputes in AHA parlance), at least according to Justice Department standards. Maybe you transposed a number or billed someone twice. Maybe you submitted bills for tests that, in hindsight, weren't really necessary.
I, and, more importantly, the Justice Department, don't want to hear about good-faith efforts and harmless mistakes. Stop your whining about the Medicare fiscal intermediaries that gave ...