Chesapeake Regional to pay $12.8M in tentative physician fraud settlement with feds

Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to resolve a criminal case stemming from the hospital’s decades-long relationship with convicted OB-GYN Javaid Perwaiz, MD, 13 News Now reported Aug. 19. Under the tentative agreement, the hospital would admit certain facts, submit to independent monitoring, pay restitution to Medicare and […] The post…