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million to settle lawsuitss thatalleged Hawaii’s largest hospital overbilled government healthj care programs for prescriptioh medications, federal prosecutors said The settlement was the result of two whistleblower lawsuits broughtr by former pharmacy technicians, who alleged that Queen’zs overbilled the state’s Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the federal health insurance progran for military dependents, according to a news release from U.S. Attorneuy Edward H. Kubo Jr.
The lawsuitsd were filed under the federal and state FalsrClaims Acts, which allow the government to claim up to tripler the damages, plus penalties, for submitting false claims to governmenft programs. The two forme r employees allege Queen’s submitted fake billsz for anti-psychotic medications that were dispensed by the hospitaol pharmacy from 1999 to 2002 and were authorize bya doctor, but not necessarily by a psychiatrist, as The hospital was also accusef of billing from 1999 to 2006 for serviceas provided by medical residents who were supposed to be supervisec by other doctors, but that the supervision did not Kubo’s office said.
Under the Queen’s paid $2 million to the federa government, which shared $400,000 of the proceeds with the twoformer employees, and $500,000 to the attorneys for the two Queen’s will also maintainn a compliance program to ensures its billings conform to the rules for five yearzs under a corporate integrithy agreement with the U.S. Departmentf of Health and Human Queen's issued this statement: " denies any intentionall wrongdoing, but after five years of discussione and negotiations withthe government, has agreecd to settle this matter so that its resourcee may be spent on providinhg quality health care rathed than on legal fees.
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