337 false asbestos claims to cost Montana clinic $6M
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims, a judge ruled.
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A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims, a judge ruled.
A Montana jury found that an asbestos clinic submitted 337 false claims that made patients in the small mining town elgible for Medicare and other benefits.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of f…
BILLINGS, Mont. -- A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims, a judge ruled.
The Center for Asbestos Related Disease clinic was ordered to pay $6 million in penalties and damages after submitting hundreds of false asbestos claims.
The judgement against the Center for Asbestos Related Disease clinic comes in a federal case filed by BNSF Railway in 2019 under the False Claims Act, which allows private parties to sue on the government’s behalf.
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