The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey will pay the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that its hospital defrauded Medicaid. The suit originated in a qui tam complaint filed by Dr. Steven Simring. For nine years the hospital submitted duplicate claims to Medicaid which were also submitted by doctors working in the outpatient centers, effectively double billing the Medicaid program. New Jersey previously recouped $4.9 million from the hospital on similar criminal complaint files.

Dr. Simring will receive $801,000 of the total federal recovery for his involvement in the case.  The settlement was achieved by the Office of the Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice’s Department’s Civil Division.