The University of California has agreed to pay a $1.2 million settlement to resolve allegations of falsification of medical records and poor supervision of patients, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.
The suit was brought by whistleblower Dr. Dennis O’Connor, a former professor of anesthesiology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. He alleged that anesthesia...
On March 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the district court’s decision to find Anchor Mortgage Corporation and its CEO John Munson liable for false claims submitted in loan guaranty applications to the U.S. government, but reversed the “gross trebling” calculation of the damages in favor of “net trebling,” which...
Alabama-based Caddell Construction has agreed to pay a $1.15 million settlement to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly making false reports to the Army Corps of Engineers that they had hired and were mentoring a Native American-owned company to work construction projects, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
The United States alleged...
Hospice of Arizona, L.C., American Hospice Management LLC, and American Hospice Management Holdings LLC, have agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly defrauding Medicare, the Department of Justice announced today.
Hospice of Arizona and its related entities allegedly engaged in practices that resulted in the...
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the federal district court's decision that the two whistleblowers, or relators, in Rille et al v. Accenture, LLP et al, No. 11-2054 (8th Cir. 2013) were entitled to a 15% share of the federal government's $46 million False Claims Act settlement with Hewlett-Packard, amounting to a $6.9 million...
Tennessee-based Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (collectively, Grace) have agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare and TennCare/Medicaid programs for unnecessary rehabilitation therapy, the Department of Justice announced last week.
The suit alleged that from 2007 to 2011,...
Colorado-based CH2M Hill Hanford Group (CHG) and its parent company CH2M Hill Companies Ltd. (CH2M Hill) admitted to criminal conduct when CHG engaged in years of widespread time card fraud on the U.S. Department of Energy. Between 1999 and 2008, CH2M Hill had a federal contract to manage and clean 177 large underground storage tanks containing mixed radioactive and...
New York-based Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay $5.65 million to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it knowingly presented false claims for laboratory research products it sold to federal agencies through its Life Sciences division.
In 2005, Corning entered a contract to sell laboratory research products to the federal government through a program that...
American Systems Corporation, Anixter International Inc., and Corning Cable Systems LLC have agreed to pay the U.S. government $3 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Act while bidding on a contract with the CIA, the U.S. Justice Department announced today. The United States alleged that the three companies provided...
Florida-based HPH Hospice agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
The Medicare hospice benefit is available for patients who have a life expectancy of six months or less if their disease runs its normal course....
