Vermont Business Magazine The US Department of Justice has filed notice(link is external) that it intends to join a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Phillips & Cohen LLP against Modernizing Medicine and a co-founder alleging serious violations of the False Claims Act involving the company's electronic health records (EHR) software and illegal kickbacks to physicians. The lawsuit was unsealed in United States District Court for the District of Vermont in Burlington on March 24, 2022.
ModMed sells a cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) system, through subscription services, to specialty medical practices, including, gastroenterology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, pain management, plastic surgery, rheumatology, urology and dermatology practices. Medical practices use the software for clinical documentation, prescribing medications, telemedicine, billing and more.
The "qui tam" (whistleblower) complaint was filed under seal in 2017 by Phillips & Cohen LLP on behalf of a former ModMed executive. The case became public yesterday when a federal district court in Vermont lifted the seal.
Vermont is the jurisdiction because, the complaint says, because "defendants can be found in and/or transact business in the District of Vermont.
Among the Vermont businesses who used MMI's cloud-based Electronic Medical Assistant, according to the complaint, are Four Seasons Dermatology in Colchester, New England Dermatology in White River Jct, Fletcher Allen Healthcare...
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