The second phase of a whistle-blower case brought against Halifax Health will focus on patient admissions and whether the hospital improperly charged Medicare for their stays, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
When the trial starts in Orlando in July, attorneys for former employee and whistle-blower Elin Baclid-Kunz will accuse Halifax of “flipping beds,” and collecting millions of dollars in reimbursement rates from Medicare for patients admitted without sufficient medical justification.
Earlier this month, Halifax agreed to pay $85 million in the first phase of the case for violating the Stark Law, which prohibits providers from paying doctors based on volume, the News Journal reports.
