Wilmington, Del.-based Center for Interventional Pain and Spine, a medical group with 11 offices in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, has been accused of billing the government for unnecessary patient testing, according to a June 26 report from PBS affiliate WHYY.
A lawsuit filed by the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware has accused the center of participating in a “scheme to illegally profit” from Medicare and Medicaid programs.
CIPS and Chee Woo, MD, its president at the time, allegedly were paid millions between 2018 and 2021 through thousands of violations of the False Claims Act.…