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Article: Home Health Business Quarterly: Justice Department joins suit against HealthSouth.
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- Hospital Home Health
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- July 1, 2002
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Home Health Business Quarterly: Justice Department joins suit against HealthSouth
In late May, the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) served HealthSouth Corp., of Birmingham, AL, with a complaint, intervening in a pending civil suit in Texas. The suit was filed by a HealthSouth patient under the False Claims Act, which essentially allows individuals to sue on behalf of the government.
The DOJ complaint maintains that the company, which provides outpatient surgery, imaging, and rehabilitation services, submitted false reimbursement claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs and benefit plans for physical therapy services ...