Beth Israel Medical Center has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle allegations that the hospital “turbocharged” its billing for Medicare patients in order to take advantage of Medicare outlier payments.  Medicare allows additional outlier reimbursement for patients whose treatment is more costly than the average patient.  The hospital admitted that it inflated patient billings in order to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars of additional reimbursement from the federal government.  The suit was both filed and settled this week in the federal district court in Manhattan.

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