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NEWS: Hospital settles charges of overbilling

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Published September 17, 2008

Staten Island University Hospital settled for fraudulent billing again. For the third time in a decade, the hospital will pay millions of dollars ($88.9 million this time) to settle civil charges for knowingly overbilling the government, the New York Times reports.

Two charges came thanks to whistle-blowers: one a former doctor, the other a widow of a cancer patient.

To read more in the New York Times on this story, click here.



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