tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 19

Stark & FCA: Tuomey Troubles Make Former CEO Personally Liable for &1 Million

Heads up, health care executives: Stark just got personal. Ralph J. Cox III, former chief executive office ofTuomey Healthcare Systemin Sumter, SC, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations involving his role in false claims the hospital submitted to Medicare and Medicaid, theDepartment of Justice announced (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-chief-executive-south-carolina-hospital-pays-1-million-and-agrees-exclusion-settle) Sept. 27. The settlement excludes Cox from federal health programs for four years, which means he can’t administer any program that takes Medicare, Medicaid, or other federal funds. (Cox resigned from Tuomey Healthcare System in 2013.) “Today’s settlement demonstrates that the Justice Department and...

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