BIDMC fined $100K for employing felon convicted of healthcare fraud

BIDMC has agreed to pay $99,787.75 in penalties for employing an individual that Medicare’s Inspector General alleged the hospital knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs  including Medicare. The BIDMC employee, who worked at BIDMC from 2006-2009, was excluded following a “felony conviction relating to health care fraud.”

Freedom of Information Request, Office of the Inspector General, Case No. 2010-0451SS, September 30, 2010. See also http://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/exclusions/authorities.asp, exclusion under 128(a)(3)† 1320a-7(a)(3) Felony conviction relating to health care fraud. Minimum Period: 5 years.