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Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories have agreed to pay $1.79 million to settle allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California announced last week.
This settlement resolves allegations that Quest Diagnostics submitted duplicative claims to Medicare for certain venipuncture services and diagnostic tests and certain... full text
Pediatric Services of America and related entities (collectively, “PSA”) have agreed to pay $6.88 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to state and federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia announced earlier this month.
PSA, a provider of home nursing services to medically fragile children, allegedly (1) failed to disclose... full text
U.S. Investigations Services (USIS) and its parent company, Altegrity, have agreed to forego collection on $30 million worth of payments supposedly owed by the federal government in order to resolve allegations that USIS knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
USIS provided background investigations services for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under various fieldwork contracts. The government alleged... full text
Mercy Health Springfield Communities and Mercy Clinic Springfield Communities, formerly St. John’s Health System and St. John’s Clinic, respectively, have agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care program Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
The settlement resolved allegations that the defendants submitted false claims to the Medicare program for services... full text
PC Specialists Inc., dba Technology Integration Group (TIG) has agreed to pay $5.9 in order to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government for computers sold to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for use at Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
TIG sold Dell computers to Sandia Corporation for resale to the United States under Sandia’s contract with... full text
California-based NuVasive Inc. has agreed to pay $13.5 to the United States federal government in order to settle allegations that the company 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 between 2008 and 2013, NuVasive promoted the use of the company’s CoRoent System for surgical uses that were not approved or cleared by the federal Food and Drug... full text
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Blanding Health Mart Pharmacy has agreed to pay $8.4 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the government, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced earlier this week.
The government had alleged that Blanding sought reimbursement for compounding pharmaceutical prescriptions that were not medically necessary and were written by physicians that had never actually seen the... full text
Covan World Wide Moving, Inc., Coleman American Moving Services, Inc., and other related entities with home offices in Dothan, Ala. have agreed to pay $5 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of South Carolina announced yesterday.
The United States contended that Covan and others increased the weights of shipments and storage of servicemember’s... full text
AstraZeneca and Cephalon have agreed to pay $46.5 million and $7.5 million, respectively, to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to state and federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
Pursuant to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, drug manufacturers are required to pay quarterly rebates to state Medicaid programs in exchange for Medicaid’s coverage of the manufacturers’... full text
LB&B Associates Inc. and its principals, Lily A. Brandon and F. Edward Brandon, have agreed to pay $7.8 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) 8(a) Business Development Program for Small Disadvantaged Businesses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
The government alleged that in seeking certification under SBA’s 8(a) Program,... full text
