April 18, 2005
Kaiser Permanente Hawaii has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle charges of inaccurate Medicare and Medicaid claims, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported on April 15, 2005.
The lawsuit, which was brought by a Kaiser employee under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, alleged that from 1984 to 2001 Hawaii’s largest health maintenance organization billed Medicare and Medicaid for services performed by a dermatology employee who did not have a state physician’s assistant license.