Two former managers and the owner of the now defunct North-Carolina based Carolina Comprehensive Health Network, PA (CCHN) have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing CCHN to bill claims for medically unnecessary diagnostic tests and procedures to the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Michael Smith, Codey Brown, and CCHN’s former owner, Dr. Harrison Frank, have collectively agreed to pay $900,000.00 to resolve the allegations. Before it ceased operations, CCHN consisted of a group of healthcare practices, including multiple locations in the Western District of North Carolina, that provided family medicine, immediate care, and pain management services. The settlement resolves allegations that from May 1, 2015 through November 30, 2015, CCHN billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for unnecessary diagnostic procedures including positional nystagmus testing, rotational axis testing, nerve conduction testing, and autonomous nervous system testing.
