Florida Hospital parent settles $5.4M Medicare dispute

The parent company of the Florida Hospital chain settled claims accusing it of violating federal law while providing radiation oncology services to Medicare and Tricare patients.

Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corp. will pay $5.4 million — including nearly $1.1 million to an oncologist now working at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa — to resolve a complaint that patients were not receiving the direct supervision by radiation oncologists required by Medicare and Tricare, the program managed by the U.S. Department of Defense, a release states.

Adventist did not admit fault in the settlement, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.