U.S. Attorney's Office Reaches $300,000 False Claims Act Settlement with Clarksville Clinic Over Allegations of Improperly Coded TRICARE Claims
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NASHVILLE – United States Attorney Braden H. Boucek for the Middle District of Tennessee announced today that Pitts Therapies, LLC (Pitts Therapies), doing business as Cornerstone Pediatric Therapies (Cornerstone or the Clinic), has agreed to pay $300,000 to the United States to settle allegations that Cornerstone violated the False Claims Act by excessively billing TRICARE for certain billing codes. Cornerstone operates a clinic in Clarksville, Tennessee, that provides pediatric therapy, including speech therapy, to children who are autistic, non-verbal, or speech-delayed. The United States alleged that Cornerstone improperly caused false claims to be submitted to TRICARE in two categories. First, the United States contended that the Clinic billed TRICARE for two units of a billing code p