False Claims / Whistleblowers

March 15, 2016
Hayner Hoyt Corporation has agreed to pay $5 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that its top executives and affiliates knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims while exploiting contracting opportunities reserved for service-disabled veterans, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday. The United States has long used government...
March 11, 2016
21st Century Oncology Inc., the nation’s largest physician led integrated cancer care provider and its wholly owned subsidiary South Florida Radiation Oncology LLC, has agreed to pay $34.7 million to the federal government to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims for procedures that were not medically...
March 8, 2016
Ohio-based ArmorSource, LLC has agreed to pay the federal government $3 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection to a U.S. Army contract, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday. In 2006, the Army contracted with ArmorSource to manufacture the Advanced Combat Helmet or ACH for use by...
March 4, 2016
Mark T. Conklin, the former owner, operator and sole shareholder of Recovery Home Care Inc. and Recovery Home Care Services Inc. (collectively RHC) has agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging that he knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by causing RHC to pay illegal kickbacks to doctors who agreed to refer Medicare patients to RHC for...
March 1, 2016
Security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay the federal government $5 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by misrepresenting their compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday....
February 23, 2016
Ameri-Source International Inc., Ameri-Source Specialty Products Inc., Ameri-Source Holdings Inc., and their owners Ajay Goel and Thomas Diener, have agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by evading customs duties on imports of small diameter graphite electrodes from China, the U.S. Department of...
February 17, 2016
Fifty-one hospitals in 15 states have agreed to pay the federal government more than $23 million to settle allegations that the hospitals knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care program Medicare for cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of coverage requirements, the U.S. Department of Justice announced...
February 9, 2016
Rose Radiology Centers has agreed to pay $8.71 million to settle allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs for radiology procedures that were not medically necessary or violated federal regulations, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced last month. The...
February 2, 2016
Centerra Services International Inc. (fka Wackenhut Services LLC) has agreed to pay $7.4 million to settle allegations that Wackenhut knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by double billing and inflating labor costs in connection with a contract for firefighting and fire protection services in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday....
January 29, 2016
RehabCare Group, RehabCare Group East, and their parent Kindred Healthcare Inc. have agreed to pay $125 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable, necessary and skilled, or that never occurred, the U.S. Department of Justice...