CityMD is backed by Walgreens Boots Alliance and operates over 100 walk-in urgent care practices in New York and New Jersey.
Walgreens-backed CityMD will pay $12.04 million to settle Covid fraud allegations brought by the Department of Justice.
For two years of the pandemic, CityMD allegedly obtained fraudulent government reimbursements for Covid tests by submitting false claims to a Covid program specifically designated for uninsured patients, even when their patients had health insurance. A CityMD patient initially brought the fraud allegations to the government's attention and as a result, will receive over $2 million of the DOJ's winnings from the case.From February 2020 to April 2022, the urgent care provider allegedly obtained fraudulent government reimbursements for Covid tests by submitting false claims to a Covid program specifically designated for uninsured patients, even when their patients had health insurance.
CityMD, which operates over 100 walk-in urgent care practices in New York and New Jersey, cooperated with the government's investigation and hired a third-party firm to help the government determine how much was lost in connection as a result of the alleged fraud, according to the DOJ."Uninsured Americans who were at risk from COVID-19 were covered by emergency funding programs that made available to them the testing, vaccines and treatments that they needed," U.S.
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