False Claims / Whistleblowers

September 4, 2013
New York-based Imagimed LLC and its former owners, William B. Wolf III and Dr. Timothy J. Greenan, and its former radiologist, Dr. Steven Winter, have agreed to pay $3.57 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal healthcare programs for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services, the U.S. Department of...
September 3, 2013
ATI Enterprises, a Texas-based chain of career training schools operating in the southern and western United States, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $3.7 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal student aid programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.  ATI Enterprises...
August 30, 2013
Shands Healthcare, which operates a network of health care providers in Florida, including a teaching hospital and a medical center, has agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week....
August 28, 2013
The U.S. government has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. for violations of the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false claims to be submitted to the Medicare program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this month.  The lawsuit...
August 23, 2013
Northwestern University has agreed to pay the United States government $2.93 million to resolve allegations of cancer research grant fraud committed by a former researcher and physician at the university’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Center for Cancer in Chicago, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.  Northwestern allegedly allowed one of its...
August 27, 2013
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has entered judgment for more than $17 million against Dr. Ishtiaq Malik and his two companies, Ishtiaq Malik M.D., P.C. and Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics, for submitting false nuclear cardiology claims to federal and state health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month. The government’s...
August 22, 2013
Dubuis Health System and Southern Crescent Hospital for Specialty Care, Inc. (Southern Crescent) have agreed to pay $8 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.  Dubuis Health System manages long-term acute care hospitals in multiple...
July 26, 2013
Two of the country’s largest commercial shredding services companies, Shred-It Incorporated and Iron Mountain, recently agreed to pay $1.1 million between them to settle allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government, related to contracts for secure shredding services, the U.S. Department of Justice...
July 25, 2013
Whistleblower Richard Priem will receive $1.8 million as his share of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) settlement with the U.S. government, the Associated Press reported recently. SAIC received federal grant money through the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to provide course management, development, and instruction to first responder...
July 22, 2013
The polling and market research firm Gallup Organization has agreed to pay $10.5 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act and the Procurement Integrity Act for conduct involving several of its federal government contracts and subcontracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this month.  Gallup is headquartered in Washington, D.C...