False Claims / Whistleblowers
April 29, 2014
Amedisys Home Health Companies have agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. Amedisys is one of the nation’s largest providers of home health services and operates in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
April 24, 2014
CRC Health Corp. has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicaid and Tennessee Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. CRC is a nationwide provider of substance abuse and mental health treatment services.
CRC owns and operates a residential substance...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicaid Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
April 15, 2014
Kansas-based Hope Cancer Institute and its owner Dr. Raj Sadasvian have agreed to pay $2.9 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
The settlement resolves allegations that Sadasivan and Hope...
April 10, 2014
Alliance Rehabilitation, LLC and Active Physical Therapy Services, LLC, along with three individuals associated with those businesses, have agreed to pay the federal government $2.78 million to settle allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and the TRICARE health care program, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for...
April 9, 2014
Five California-based masonry subcontractors and two individuals have agreed to pay the government $1.9 million to resolve allegations that the parties violated the False Claims Act in connection with military construction contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. The defendants allegedly misrepresented their status as disadvantaged small businesses....
April 2, 2014
Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with inflated prices for Black Hawk helicopter parts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced earlier this week.
Sikorsky, which manufactures Black...
March 26, 2014
Lantheus Medical Imaging and Bristol-Myers Squibb have agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle allegations that the company failed to pay New York State and City taxes, in violation of the False Claims Act, the New York Attorney General’s office announced.
Lantheus and its former parent company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, allegedly did not pay applicable New York State business...
False Claims Act, New York False Claims Act, Qui Tam, Tax Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
March 25, 2014
California-based Bizlink Technology, Inc. (BTI) has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by underpaying customs duties owed on goods imported from China, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced earlier this month.
BTI allegedly underpaid customs duties on goods that BTI...
March 13, 2014
Keith Edwards, the whistleblower who provided tips that led to JPMorgan & Chase’s $614 million False Claims Act settlement, will receive $63.9 million as his portion of the settlement, the Chicago Tribune reported last week. Edwards was formerly an employee of JPMorgan.
JPMC admitted that, for more than a decade, it approved thousands of Federal Housing...
March 19, 2014
American Family Care Inc. has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal health care program Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. American Family Care is a network of walk-in medical clinics headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with offices in Alabama,...
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