A $7.95 million settlement was reached between the parent company of two New Jersey hospitals and the federal government. The original whistleblower case was brought by Tony Kite, a private health care consultant, who will receive $356,000, plus interest, from the settlement.

The settlement was reached with Our Lady of Lourdes Health Care Services Inc., of Camden, N.J., which operates several other medical centers. The lawsuit alleged that one of the medical centers inflated charges to Medicare patients to receive outlier payments for cases which would not normally be so costly.

The settlement was the result of work conducted by the Justice Department’s Civil Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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