St. Mary in Langhorne to pay U.S. $3.3M to settle Medicare case

St. Mary in Langhorne to pay U.S. $3.3M to settle Medicare case: "St. Mary Medical Center in Langhorne has agreed to pay the government $3.3 million in an improper billing case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. The hospital had volunteered information that it improperly billed Medicare by coding events that should have been classified as observations or outpatient visits as inpatient hospital admissions, the prosecutor’s office said. That led to a higher Medicare reimbursement. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said “hospitals such St. Mary’s are...

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