Physician-Owned Hospital Agrees to Resolve its Civil and Criminal Liability for Benefiting from Illegal Kickbacks to Physicians

DALLAS - Forest Park Medical Center, LLC (FPMC), a North Texas physician-owned hospital, paid over $258,000 to settle allegations that it violated the civil False Claims Act, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. The United States contends that a FPMC representative paid illegal kickbacks to area physicians to obtain referrals for Tricare patients, a federally funded health care program, in violation of the federal law, between 2008 and 2012. Based on the same allegations, FPMC entered into a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the United States and agreed to certain conditions, as well as a federally imposed monitor for not more than 24 months. FPMC fully cooperated with the investigation, and by settling civilly and criminally, did not admit any wrong-doing or liability.

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