Condell, the largest health care provider in Lake County, Ill., $36 Million Settlement After Self-Reporting Possible Health-Care Fraud

Condell Health Network and Medical Center to Pay $36 Million Settlement After Self-Reporting Possible Health-Care Fraud

December 1, 2008

Condell Health Network and Medical Center to Pay $36 Million Settlement After Self-Reporting Possible Health-Care FraudCondell Health Network, parent corporation of Condell Medical Center, a 283-bed hospital in Libertyville - after voluntarily disclosing that it received improper Medicare and Medicaid payments - has agreed without litigation to pay the United States and the State of Illinois$36 million as a result of filing false claims for reimbursement, announced Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Condell, the largest health care provider in Lake County, Ill., made the voluntary disclosure earlier this year while in the process of being acquired by Advocate Health Care, of Oak Brook, Ill., which was scheduled to be completed today. Full release

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