The Earth Times and the U.S. Department of Justice reported on March 4, 2008, settlement of a False Claims Act case against Cathedral Healthcare System, Inc. in New Jersey. Whistleblowers Peter Salvatori and Sarah Iveson will receive $848,000 of the $5.3 Million settlement paid by Cathedral.

The hospital system improperly increased charges to Medicare patients to obtain higher Medicare reimbursement from the federal government. The whistleblowers helped the federal government with the evidence that Cathedral had wrongfully increased charges for both inpatient and outpatient care of Medicare patients, illegally obtaining higher “outlier” type payments from Medicare than the hospital system was entitled to receive.

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