False Claims Act
October 30, 2013
John Lombardi has filed a lawsuit against his previous employer, George Washington University (GW), for unlawful termination in connection with his attempts to blow the whistle on GW’s contract fraud on the Department of State.
GW obtained subcontracts through Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for orders related to the federally funded Global Anti-...
October 29, 2013
Fox Rx, Inc. has filed a complaint against Walgreens Company in the federal district court of the Southern District of New York for violations of the False Claims Act. Walgreens allegedly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to state and federal health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Fox Rx alleges that Walgreens routinely overbilled Medicare...
October 23, 2013
The owners of Global Medical Direct, LLC and Global Medical Inc., have agreed to pay $7 million to resolve allegations against them in connection with a scheme to submit false claims to the federal Medicare and Tricare healthcare programs, the United States Attorney’s Office announced yesterday. Global Medical, Inc. and its parent company, Global Medical Direct, LLC, are...
California Proposition 65, False Claims Act, Medicare Fraud, Prop 65 California, Prop 65 Warning, Proposition 65, qui tam lawsuit, Whistleblower Act
September 19, 2013
Several Florida-based radiation oncology providers have agreed to pay $3.5 million to the U.S. government and the State of Florida to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. The defendants include Gulf Region Radiation Oncology Centers...
October 11, 2013
The lawsuit against Citizens Medical Center (Citizens), filed by Drs. Dakshesh Parikh, Harish Chandna, and Ajay Gaala, is moving forward after a federal judge denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the case. The doctors allege that Citizens violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false claims to federal health care...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower
October 2, 2013
A federal judge has ordered South Carolina-based Tuomey Healthcare System to pay $227 million for violations of the False Claims Act and the Stark Law.
Tuomey Healthcare System was accused of signing 19 doctors to lucrative part-time contracts that paid well above fair market value in order to continue to receive the referral fees associated with those doctors’...
September 27, 2013
A federal judge in San Francisco has denied motions for partial summary judgment made by both McKesson Corporation and the Commonwealth of Virginia. The case, involving violations of the Virginia Fraud Against the Taxpayers Act (VFATA), Virginia’s state equivalent of the federal False Claims Act, will proceed to trial. Virginia alleges that...
September 25, 2013
California-based Kan-Di-Ki, doing business as Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology (Diagnostic Labs) has agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that the company violated both the federal and California False Claims Acts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Kan-Di-Ki allegedly paid kickbacks for the referral of mobile lab and radiology services...
California, False Claims Act, Government Fraud, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
September 17, 2013
Conax Florida Corp. and related companies have agreed to settle allegations that Conax knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. government in connection with improperly tested and non-conforming equipment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
Conax Florida Corp. designed and manufactured inertia reels and voltage references used...
September 13, 2013
Farideh Heidarpour, her billing company A.B.C. Billing Inc., and her son Ali Heidarpour (who was also her employee) have agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle allegations that her and her company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to workers’ compensation programs, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag announced...
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