Two Ohio facilities to pay $108M in cardiac kickback case

May 20, 2010

Two Ohio hospitals today agreed to pay the U.S. government $108 million to settle claims that the institutions violated federal law by unlawfully paying doctors for referrals of cardiac patients.

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