Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center has agreed to pay $600,000 to New York State to settle allegations that it operated an uncertified satellite facility and fraudulently billed New York Medicaid. According to the NY Attorney General’s Office, Whitman Ingersoll Farragut Health Center, a satellite facility of Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center, did not have an operating certificate. In order to obtain reimbursement for services provided at the Whitman Ingersoll Farragut, claims allegedly were routed through Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center and billed as if services had been provided by that facility. The allegations were brought to the Attorney General’s attention through a whistleblower lawsuit filed in federal court in 2010.

Read the NY AG’s press release, “A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Brooklyn Medical Center That Ran Satellite Facility Without An Operating Certificate”