Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Center is paying $2.92 million, plus interest, to settle allegations that the hospital defrauded Medicare. 

The hospital allegedly inflated its charges to obtain supplemental outlier payments from the federal health care program.  Medicare reserves outlier payments for cases where there is an unusually high cost of care to provide hospitals with an incentive to treat patients requiring such care. 

The suit was originally filed by a whistleblower, Tony Kite, who brought his suit under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act.  Mr. Kite will receive approximately $613,000, plus interest, out of the civil settlement proceeds. 

Click here to read the full article, “Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in New York to Pay U.S. $2.92 Million to Resolve Fraud Allegations”.