False Claims Act
April 24, 2015
Family Dermatology P.C., which owns and operates a dermatopathology lab and a number of dermatology practices, has agreed to pay $3.2 million plus interest to settle allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with a number of its employed physicians, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
The...
April 10, 2015
Virginia-based Health Diagnostics Laboratory Inc. (HDL) and California-based Singulex Inc. have agreed to pay $48.5 million to resolve allegations that the companies violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by paying remuneration to physicians in exchange for patient referrals and billing federal health care programs for medically unnecessary testing, the...
March 25, 2015
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company has agreed to pay $44 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly issued insurance policies that were ineligible under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) federal crop insurance program and falsified documents, the Justice Department announced earlier this week. Fireman’s Fund, an...
March 20, 2015
Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation (Adventist) has agreed to pay $5.4 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs Medicare and TRICARE by providing radiation oncology services to beneficiaries that were not properly supervised, the U.S. Department of Justice...
March 9, 2015
Recovery Home Care and National Home Care Holdings LLC have agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that the Recovery Home Care entities knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. The Recovery Home Care entities provide home health care services to Medicare beneficiaries and were...
February 23, 2015
Two Florida medical doctors and their wives have agreed to pay, collectively, $1.13 million to settle allegations and they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
The United States alleged that A Plus and its owner, Tracy Nemerofsky, engaged in a scheme to increase...
February 18, 2015
Import companies C.R. Lawrence Co. Inc., Southeastern Aluminum Products Inc., and Waterfall Group LLC have agreed to pay, collectively, $3.05 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government in connection with false customs declarations on imports of aluminum extrusions from the People...
February 13, 2015
AstraZeneca LP has agreed to pay the federal government $7.9 million in order to settle allegations that AstraZeneca knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
The settlement resolves allegations that AstraZeneca agreed to provide remuneration to Medco Health...
February 11, 2015
Medtronic Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs in connection to a medical procedure known as “SubQ Stimulation,” the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The United States alleged that Medtronic...
February 9, 2015
Good Shepherd Hospice Inc. and its related entities has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that Good Shepherd knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for hospice patients who were not terminally ill, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last Friday. Good Shepherd provides hospice services in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas,...
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