The $18.3 million settlement agreement released Friday by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, calls for a long list of reforms that Banner must implement then maintain for five years.
Banner's present legal trouble stemmed from a whistleblower complaint filed under the False Claims Act in 2013 by Cecilia...Arizona News
Banner Health has agreed to pay the United States over $18 million to settle allegations that 12 of its hospitals in Arizona and Colorado knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly outpatient basis.
The settlement resolves allegations that 12 Banner Health hospitals...
