DARTMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER PAYS $550,000 TO SETTLE WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIM

For the second time in the past two years, Dartmouth Hitchcock health system has settled over a billing claim. Last year the hospital paud over $2.2 million as remediation for documentation and billing errors in its anesthesiology radiology departments. today it announced it will pay $550,000. The billing discrepancies related to a physician in the neurology department who had improperly billed the Federal Government.