Cooper Health
System to Pay
$12.6 Million
New-Jersey based
Cooper Health
System and
Cooper
University
Hospital have
agreed to pay
$12.6 million to
settle
a False Claims
Act case alleging
the hospital
created the
Cooper Heart
Institute
Advisory Board
(“CHIAB”), a
sham entity to
pay doctors with
high-volume
medical
practices
upwards of
$18,500 each to
do little more
than watch four
lectures per
year hosted at
an elegant
banquet
facility. The
whistleblower,
Dr. Nicholas L.
DePace, is a
nationally-recognized
expert in
cardiology who
was approached
by Cooper Health
to join CHIAB.
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