United States Intervenes in False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Colorado Medical Companies

The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a False Claims Act whistleblower suit targeting three Colorado healthcare companies—Front Range Urgent Care, Comfort Care Family Practice, and QwikCareMD—along with two individuals. The government alleges the defendants ran a nearly decade-long scheme of billing federal health insurance programs under a physician's provider number for services he neither performed nor supervised. Physical therapy practices that bill under supervising provider numbers should be aware of the legal standards governing proper supervision and billing attribution.

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