Tampa health care company to pay $14.9M in false claims settlement

A Tampa company that provides physician services for assisted living, group homes and memory care units will pay nearly $15 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims. 

Bluestone Physician Services of Florida LLC, Bluestone Physician Services P.A., and Bluestone National LLC — which operate in Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin, respectively — agreed to pay $14,902,000 over allegations that they submitted claims for chronic care management and visiting established patients in rest homes when they had not provided those services, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. The claims were submitted to Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE.

Federal officials say that the false claims were submitted from 2015 to 2019.