UW Medicine Billing Scandal

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UW Medicine Billing Scandal
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KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
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KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio (Seattle, Washington)
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cpb-aacip/358-98z8wst5
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UW Physicians and the UW Medical School were fined a record $35 million for fraudulent billing practices, and two doctors were convicted of fraud, after a former staffer filed a whistleblower claim in 1999 and became an informant for the FBI. Some former insiders, including the whistleblower Mark Erickson, say the fine and convictions aren't enough and many others at the University are responsible for years of fraudulent billing. The UW Medical Center has assembled a review committee to perform its own probe of billing practices. Why are more and more university hospitals coming under fire for billing practices? And how is it that fraudulent billing can continue unchecked for years before something happens to stop it? We take a look at the UW medical billing scandal and other billing scandals around the country on Weekday.
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Program
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News
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News
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2011 KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
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Sound
Credits
Copyright Holder: KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
Producer: Steve Scher
Producing Organization: KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
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KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
Identifier: weekdayb20040817 (File name)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Original
Duration: 00:59:58
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Chicago: “UW Medicine Billing Scandal,” KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 29, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-358-98z8wst5.
MLA: “UW Medicine Billing Scandal.” KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 29, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-358-98z8wst5>.
APA: UW Medicine Billing Scandal. Boston, MA: KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-358-98z8wst5