Tacoma Physician Group Pays $14.5 Million To Settle Medicare Over-Billing Allegations

Sound Physicians, a Tacoma-based, national physician group that employs more than 700 hospitalists, paid $14.5 million to settle claims that it over-billed Medicare.  Former Sound Physicians’ employee Craig Thomas filed a whistleblower lawsuit under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.  The lawsuit alleges that the company knowingly submitted inflated claims where documentation […]