UPMC: Settles Stark Law Case

By Health Capital Consultants, LLC

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On May 9th, 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), a large nonprofit healthcare system that owns a number of hospitals, medical practices, and other subsidiaries, announced that they would pay $38 million to settle a longstanding Stark Law case which had triggered a violation of the False Claims Act (FCA). The lawsuit claimed that several of UPMC’s surgeons ordered complex and unnecessary procedures to increase their earnings. 

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This Health Capital Topics article will discuss the UPMC settlement and the allegations underlying the case. (Read more…) 

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