The federal government will get new authority to regulate D.C.’s troubled mental institution under a settlement that avoids federal litigation over massive problems in the hospital’s billing and accounting departments, The Examiner has learned.
St. Elizabeths hospital will sign a “corporate integrity agreement” with the Department of Health and Human Services to avoid costly federal legal action over allegations of fraud in the hospital’s Medicare billing, according to sources with intimate knowledge of the negotiations.
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