The US Attorney’s Office has reached a $100,000 settlement with Brockton Urology Clinic LLC, a physician practice located in North Easton, to resolve allegations that it violated federal healthcare laws resulting in false claims to Medicare. As detailed in the settlement agreement, in 2011, Brockton Urology entered into an agreement with a Massachusetts hospital which obligated Brockton Urology to administer a “Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence” at said hospital. However, as Brockton Urology admits, the hospital never created a Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence and Brockton Urology never provided a physician to serve as the director of a Prostate Cancer Program. Yet from April 2011 through December 2017, the hospital paid Brockton Urology purportedly pursuant to the agreement and Brockton Urology referred patients to the hospital. The United States contends that this course of conduct constitutes an unlawful financial relationship between Brockton Urology, a party that referred health services, and the hospital, the entity that billed Medicare for those services. Through this violation of the law, Brockton Urology caused the submission of false claims to Medicare.
