About four health care companies of Kaiser are to pay almost $3.75 million for the false billing case. Kaiser had improperly billed Medicaid and Medicare for the services that they had claimed provided by the teaching physicians.

It was later reported that the services had not been provided by the physicians who taught, as was stated by Kaiser. Instead, they were provided by residents who did not have any supervision by teaching physicians.

It has also been found that those resident physicians did not have the license to be a physician's assistant as they had not been able to live up to the requirements of the state that was necessary from the license.

The four units had been making these false billings from the year 1996 till about 2002, and they had voluntarily disclosed after the necessary documentation was not properly maintained as found during an internal review. It has been reported that the company had to maintain its high standards by having a teaching physician to watch over the residing physician. After all these shortcomings, the company finally accepted to resolve the allegations as reported on Thursday.