May 23, 2006
Harlem Hospital will pay $2.3 million to settle civil charges that it double-billed Medicare from January 1992 through June 2001 for the same outpatient services. The hospital, part of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corp., was allegedly notified by its medical claims processor that it was consistently double billing Medicare, but did not stop the practice.
The complaint and settlement were both filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. New York Business reported on the settlement on May 17, 2006.