Wheaton Community Hospital, the City of Wheaton, MN. and Dr. Stanley Gallagher have been ordered to pay the collective total of $846,461 for violations of the False Claims Act.
The group, collectively knows as WCH, were accused of administering unnecessary care to patients, charging unreasonable costs to Medicare, and keeping patients far too long in acute care in order accumulate costs between 1998 and 2004. The case was filed under qui tam provisions, and the primary whistleblower, Dr. Steven Radjenovich, stands to receive $204,150 in rewards.
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