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 agreedto 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.
