University Agrees to Pay $2 Million in Medicaid Fraud Probe

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey has agreed to pay $2 million to settle civil fraud allegations by the U.S. Justice Department that it conspired with doctors to double bill Medicaid for outpatient physician services.The Justice Department said in a release that the Newark, N.J.-based public university submitted claims to Medicaid between 1992 and 2004 and also were billed to the program by doctors working at the hospitals' outpatient centers."Today’s settlement demonstrates that the Department of Justice will not tolerate fraud on our Medicaid programs, which we...