Cleveland Clinic agrees to pay DOJ $7.6 million settlement over fraud allegations

Cleveland Clinic has agreed to pay millions of dollars and will have restrictions placed on its federal grant process in order to resolve fraud allegations made by the U.S. government.
According to the Department of Justice, the Clinic will pay $7.6 million following accusations it violated the False Claims Act. Specifically, investigators say the hospital submitted multiple false grant applications to the National Institutes of Health by failing to disclose a "key employee's" sources of financial assistance for their research.
"Despite NIH requirements to do so, CCF (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) repeatedly failed to disclose that the employee who it designated as the Principal Investigator on each grant had pending and/or active grants from foreign institutions that provided financial assistance to support the employee's research and already obligated that employee's research time," the DOJ wrote. "CCF falsely certified that the grants submissions were true and accurate."
The NIH requires all grant applicants to share all sources of outside funding, in order to best determine of they are deserving of additional research dollars. In addition, Cleveland Clinic workers are also alleged to have violated NIH policy by sharing passwords, allowing some employees improper access to the grant reporting system.
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