A new complaint has been filed against a Florida healthcare network, expanding the initial allegations that the system overbilled Medicare for radiology services, according to an article in the Orlando Sentinel.
The original case, filed against seven Orlando-area hospitals in the Adventist Health System, has widened to include charges of billing fraud in the network's emergency departments between 2001 and 2008, the article noted.
The initial complaint was filed in July 2010 and claimed that Adventist Health System affiliate Florida Hospital used improper coding from 1995 to 2009 to overbill Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare for radiology services. The complaint also claimed that the hospital overbilled for contrast media used to enhance MRI scans, and that it billed for computer-aided detection analyses that were never actually performed, the Sentinel reported.
