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Former executive vice president Joseph A.Psani filed a case against SIUH claiming that he had been made a scapegoat in a Medicaid fraud case. Jurors declined to award Pisani damages, fidning that the SIUH had not libelled him as he had alleged.
In his lawsuit Pisani alleges that the hospital, its president, Anthony C.Ferreri and its chief executive officer, had publicly humiliated him when they announced a $76.5 million settlement with Eliot Spitzer, then state attorney general, over fraudulent billing practices from 1998 to 2000. As a result of the settlement, Pisani was relieved from hi $480,000 position as executive vice president of Westchester County Health Care Corp. where he was working at the time of the SIUH settlement in May 2005.
For further details of the case read the complete article on SILive.com here.
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