Wisconsin Senior Medicare Patrol

A radiology physician and his wife are credited with uncovering a massive case of health care fraud, after they called the government and filed a qui tam whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act. Detroit’s Universal Imaging, Inc., it’s current and former owner, and primary care physician Gwendolyn Washington are named in a $150 Million dollar lawsuit that claims the company gained most of its business by paying kickbacks to physicians. Washington is one of those physicians. The suit claims she ordered unnecessary tests and put patients in danger by ordering tests that involved  injections of radioactive material. The suit also alleges Universal violated a number of Medicare rules, which include inadequate supervision of diagnostic tests, and operating as a for-profit agency, despite filing as a non-profit corporation, by filtering funds to Universal’s owners under a secondary business that took ownership of Universal’s equipment. 

Read more about the case here.