Wheeling Hospital, Inc., a 223-bed acute care hospital located in Wheeling, West Virginia, is the latest facility to be dinged by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The hospital, which has several subsidiaries and a physician network, has agreed to pay the federal government $50 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to Medicare that resulted from violations of the Physician Self-Referral Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute.

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