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Trial Lawyers Helping Medicare Recover Improper Hospital Payments For Botched Care
Category: Why Didn't I Think Of That?
You are a hospital that has just botched the care of a patient so badly that huge additional hospital expenses are piling up. What should you do with the bills? If possible, send them to Medicare. That may well be the standard practice according to multiple lawsuits just filed in a number of states.
Some public spirited trial lawyers have undertaken the mission to put a stop to this practice and to recover the improper payments on behalf of our government which, not surprisingly, is totally oblivious to this money-making hospital scheme.
Two law firms have filed lawsuits in multiple states over allegations that a number of hospitals have improperly billed Medicare for treatment of injuries or illnesses caused by medical errors, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the Times, the lawsuits, which "could potentially win millions of dollars," do not involve specific allegations of wrongdoing "but seek instead to find evidence of such treatments, arguing that Medicare should be reimbursed" (Yi, Los Angeles Times, 6/7).
The lawsuit alleges that the companies "breached their duties to Medicare" when they accepted "millions of dollars in payments" for treatment of injuries or illnesses caused by medical errors (Baskin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 6/7).
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