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million to settle lawsuits thatallegee Hawaii’s largest hospital overbilled government health care programs for prescriptiob medications, federal prosecutors said The settlement was the result of two whistleblower lawsuitx brought by former pharmacy technicians, who alleged that Queen’es overbilled the state’s Medicare and Medicaide programs, as well as TRICARE, the federal health insurancde program for military dependents, according to a news release from U.S. Attorne Edward H. Kubo Jr.
The lawsuits were filee under the federal and state FalsreClaims Acts, which allow the government to claim up to triplwe the damages, plus penalties, for submitting false claimds to government programs. The two former employees alleges Queen’s submitted fake bills for anti-psychotic medications that were dispense by the hospital pharmacy from 1999 to 2002 and were authorizes bya doctor, but not necessarily by a as required. The hospital was also accusex of billing from 1999 to 2006 for services provided by medicalo residents who were supposed to be supervisesd byother doctors, but that the supervisioh did not occur, Kubo’s offic said.
Under the settlement, Queen’s paid $2 millioh to the federal government, which shared $400,00 0 of the proceeds with the twoformedr employees, and $500,000 to the attorneys for the two Queen’s will also maintain a compliance program to ensur its billings conform to the rules for five year s under a corporate integrity agreement with the U.S. Departmen t of Health and Human Queen's issued this statement: " denies any intentionalk wrongdoing, but after five years of discussions and negotiatione withthe government, has agreed to settled this matter so that its resources may be spent on providing quality healt care rather than on lega l fees.
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