Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Will Cost Condell $36 Million

     Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill., will pay out $36 million for accepting payments from both Medicare and Medicaid for more than 5 years under illegal terms, federal prosecutors have said.

The payments allegedly included improper loans to doctors and payments to doctors who performed medical services without written agreements, said U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, noting Condell, under the settlement, does not have to admit any liability.     U.P.I.

  How do these corporations get by without having to admit that they were stealing from the government programs?

Technorati Tags: Condell Medical Center,Fraud,Medicare,Medicaid,Attorney General,Chicago