( December 7, 2023, 9:05 AM EST) -- SHERMAN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a hospital’s former chief financial officer (CFO) and several physicians agreed to pay the U.S. government a total of $880,199 to settle a qui tam federal False Claims Act (FCA) suit alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) through payment of illegal kickbacks to doctors and medical practices and fraud against government insurers by billing them for medically unnecessary tests....