June 13, 2006
Piedmont Hospital, of Atlanta, Georgia, has agreed to pay more that $3 million to resolve allegations that the hospital submitted claims to federal health care programs for services that were not eligible for reimbursement. The suit was brought by a whistleblower, Patricia Quinnelly, who brought her charges under the False Claims Act. Ms. Quinnelly, a vascular technologist, will receive $354,390 as her “relator’s share.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia issued a press release on the settlement on June 9, 2006.