Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 | 1:34 p.m.
Dr. Brian Lemper, a Las Vegas anesthesiologist and pain management physician, paid the federal government $1.25 million to resolve civil allegations by the Justice Department that he defrauded two federal health care insurance benefit programs, TRICARE and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, Nevada's U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said today.
The settlement agreement, effective Dec. 22, states that the United States alleged that from Oct. 1, 2004, through Aug. 31, 2007, Lemper submitted or caused to be submitted inflated or overstated claims to TRICARE and the federal program for surgeries and surgical supplies. Although the settlement agreement states that Lemper did not admit liability and that the United States did not concede that its claims were not well founded, he agreed to the payment to resolve the allegations.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Wenthe handled the case, which was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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