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Tacoma, Wash., Medical Firm to Pay $14.5 Million to Settle Overbilling Allegations

Bills Claimed Higher Level of Service Than Was Documented

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 3, 2013.  Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. will pay $14.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare and other federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today.  Sound Physicians is a Tacoma, Wash.-based provider of hospitalists and other physicians to hospitals and other medical facilities.  It employs more than 700 hospitalists and post-acute physicians, who provide services at 70 hospitals and a growing…

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