Peak Physical Therapy Agreed to Pay $1.8 Million for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Submitting Claims for Services by Unenrolled or Uncredentialed Providers and for Services Not Provided as Claimed

After they self-disclosed conduct to OIG, Peak Physical Therapy P.C., Peak Physical Therapy Specialists, LLC, PPT Holdings, P.C., Peak Business Management, LLC, and Confluent Health, LLC (collectively, “PPT”), Idaho, agreed to pay $1,872,708.34 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. OIG alleged that PPT submitted claims to Federal health care programs: (1) for services that were improperly claimed to have been furnished by a credentialed physical therapist when, in fact, another physical therapist actually rendered the services and the rendering physical therapist was not enrolled or credentialled with the applicable Federal health care programs at the time the services were provided; and (2) for physical therapy services by a physical therapist who was on medical leave on the dates when the physical therapy services were actually provided and/or supervised by different rendering physical therapists.

Share