Calif. hospital chain to pay $37M for allegedly overcharging Medicare

Dignity Health, a Northern California hospital chain, agreed to pay $37 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the federal Medicare program, reports San Jose Mercury News

The settlement resolves a 2009 whistleblower lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court by a former Dignity worker who claimed the hospital chain submitted false and inflated Medicare claims from 2006 to 2010. 

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