EHR provider Modernizing Medicine pays $45M to settle DOJ, whistleblower case alleging False Claims Act Violations, Kickbacks
The alleged illegal conduct included providing Miraca with exclusive "enhanced" laboratory interfaces within ModMed's EHR that would drive diagnostic testing business to Miraca.
- The alleged illegal conduct included providing Miraca with exclusive "enhanced" laboratory interfaces within ModMed's EHR that would drive diagnostic testing business to Miraca.
- It is also significant because it resolves allegations concerning illegal referral arrangements between the EHR vendor and a clinical laboratory, Miraca.
- This is believed to be the first time the United States has taken enforcement action under the False Claims Act against an EHR vendor for providing preferential treatment for a clinical laboratory.
- The "relator," or whistleblower, in the False Claims Act case isAmanda (Mandy) Long.