Emory University has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that the university violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for clinical trial services that were not permitted by the Medicare and Medicaid rules, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
Providers generally are not permitted to bill Medicare for medical care and services...
Ohio-based RPM International Inc. and its subsidiary, Tremco Inc., have agreed to pay $60.9 million to resolve allegations that Tremco knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with contracts with the General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. Tremco is a manufacturer of construction...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
