Judge orders Montana health clinic to pay nearly $6 million over false asbestos claims
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 22, 2023
MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
21 mins ago
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims, a judge ruled.
The 337 false claims made patients eligible for Medicare and other benefits they shouldn’t have received. The federally funded clinic has been at the forefront of the medical response to deadly pollution from mining near Libby, Montana
The judgement against the Center for Asbestos Related Disease . . .
