Primary Care Physicians To Pay $1.5 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Liability For Submitting Unsupported Diagnoses To The Medicare Advantage Program

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Complete Physician Services, Kenneth Wiseman, DO, and Steven Schmidt, DO (collectively, “CPS”), have agreed to pay a total of $1,500,000 plus interest to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they caused the submission of false claims by misrepresenting the severity of illness and services rendered to increase reimbursement from the Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) and Part B programs.

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