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U.S. joins whistleblower case against electronic health records vendor - Reuters

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(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is joining a whistleblower lawsuit accusing electronic health records vendor Modernizing Medicine Inc of falsely claiming its software met government-required certification criteria and paid kickbacks to doctors.

The government's decision to intervene in the case was announced Friday by lawyers for a former executive at ModMed who filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit in Vermont against the company and two co-founders under the False Claims Act.

The case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont, a leader in investigating electronic health records vendors. In three settlements with similar companies, the office has recovered $357.5 million since 2017.

In a newly unsealed filing dated March 15, the Justice Department said it...



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