Whistleblowers allege CHS made false claims about EHR technology

Modern Healthcare: A whistleblower accused Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems of submitting hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS for federal incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health records.The lawsuit, unsealed by a federal court in Miami on Thursday, claimed that CHS made it a priority for its hospitals to submit attestations for incentive payments because they were an important source of revenue for the system. The two whistleblowers, who worke