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Sevenson Environmental Services has agreed to pay $2.72 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government by accepting kickbacks, rigging bids, and passing inflated charges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in connection with work performed at the Federal Creosote Superfund Site in Manville, N.J., the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
The settlement announced today resolves allegations that... full text
CareAll Management LLC has agreed to pay $25 million to the federal government and the State of Tennessee in order to settle allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
This settlement resolves allegations that CareAll overstated the severity of patients’ conditions to increase billings and billed for services that were not medically necessary and rendered to... full text
Biotronik has agreed to pay the federal government $4.9 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
The settlement resolves allegations that Biotronik, through the payment of kickbacks to physicians, caused hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for the implantation of Biotronik pacemakers, defibrillators... full text
Dignity Health has agreed to pay $37 million to settle allegations that 13 of its hospitals knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health programs Medicare and TRICARE for patients who could have been treated on an outpatient basis, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The settlement resolves allegations that 13 Dignity Health hospitals knowingly overcharged Medicare and TRICARE, part of the military health care program, for inpatient... full text
North Florida Shipyards has agreed to pay the federal government $1 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
To qualify as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) on Coast Guard ship repair contracts, a company must be operated and managed by service disabled veterans and must perform at least 51 percent of the labor. The government... full text
EBI LLC, doing business as Biomet Spine and Bone Healing Technologies and Biomet Inc., has agreed to pay $6.07 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs including Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. EBI is a medical device company located in Parsippany, New Jersey, that sells bone growth stimulators, which are used to repair fractures that are slow to heal. It is... full text
DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc. has agreed to pay $350 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs by paying kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
The settlement today resolves allegations that DaVita identified physicians or physician groups that had significant patient populations suffering renal disease... full text
Two groups of Houston-based diagnostic centers have agreed to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs for $2.6 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
One group of centers, which operates under the name One Step Diagnostic and is owned and controlled by Fuad Rehman Cochinwala, has agreed to pay $1.2 million. The payment is being made to settle allegations that it violated the Stark... full text
The federal government has elected to intervene in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and two of its subsidiaries, Sikorsky Support Services and Derco Aerospace Inc., the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation.
The government’s complaint alleges that Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation approved an illegal cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost subcontract between... full text
The Boeing Company has agreed to pay $23 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. Air Force in connection with maintenance contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. Boeing is a giant in the aerospace and defense industries.
The government alleged that Boeing improperly charged labor costs under contracts with the Air Force for the maintenance and repair of C-17 Globemaster aircraft at Boeing’... full text
