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UW Will Pay $35 Million Dollars To Settle Overbilling Scandal
SEATTLE -- The University of Washington agreed to pay $35
million to settle claims it systematically overbilled Medicaid and
Medicare and that it destroyed documents to hide the practice.
The federal government will get more than $25 million under the
settlement Friday and Washington state $2 million, while Mark
Erickson, the whistleblower who brought the fraud to light, will
receive $7.25 million.
"I feel vindicated," said Erickson, 35, who is between jobs
and doesn't know what he's going to do with the money. "It's been
a battle for five years."
U.S. Attorney John McKay refused to say how much the overbilling
totaled. But he told a news conference that had the case gone to
trial, the government would have sought a substantially higher
figure.
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