False Claims Act
September 10, 2014
The U.S. federal government has filed two complaints against a Michigan neurosurgeon (Dr. Aria Sabit), a spinal implant company (Reliance Medical Systems), two of that company’s distributorships (Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies), and the company’s owners (Brett Berry, John Hoffman, and Adam Pike), the U.S. Department of Justice announced on...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower
September 3, 2014
The United States federal government has elected to intervene in two whistleblower lawsuits that allege Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care, now known as Optum Palliative and Hospice Care, knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The Medicare hospice benefit is available for patients who...
August 28, 2014
Bank of America Corporation has agreed to pay $16.65 billion to resolved federal and state claims against it and its former and current subsidiaries, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. The bank has agreed to pay a $5 billion penalty under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) – the largest FIRREA penalty ever...
August 25, 2014
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with the use of federal funds to impermissibly award a contract, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced last week.
The conduct at issue involves a...
August 21, 2014
Samsung Electronics America Inc. has agreed to pay $2.3 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims for products sold on contracts, in violation of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (TAA), the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts are awarded by General...
August 19, 2014
Arizona non-profit Carondelet Health Network, doing business as Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital and Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz., has agreed to pay the United States $35 million to settle allegations that the hospitals knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs, the U.S....
August 12, 2014
California-based pharmaceutical distributor McKesson Corporation has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company improperly set temperature monitors used in shipping vaccines under its contract with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The government alleged that McKesson failed to comply...
August 8, 2014
The City of New York has agreed to pay the federal government $1.05 million to resolve allegations that the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to New York State’s Medicaid program, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York announced on Monday.
Medicaid is a matching program in...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicaid Fraud, New York City, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
August 6, 2014
Community Health Systems (CHS), the nation’s largest operator of acute care hospitals, has agreed to pay $98.15 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to government health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week. One of the company’s affiliated hospitals,...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower
August 4, 2014
Hawaii-based Matson Navigation Company has agreed to pay $9.95 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with bills for ocean fuel surcharges to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the National Law Review reported last week.
Matson and Horizon Lines, a subcontractor for Matson, allegedly billed...
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