New Jersey-based C.R. Bard has agreed to pay the U.S. government $48.26 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare for brachytherapy seeds used to treat prostate cancer, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.
The United States alleged that from 1998 to 2006, Bard violated the Anti-Kickback Statute when the...
A federal jury has found South Carolina-based Tuomey Healthcare System violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act when it collected nearly $40 million in fraudulent Medicare claims, reported Sumter, S.C.’s The Item.
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...
Adventist Health and its Los Angeles-based affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center have agreed to pay the United States and the State of California $14.1 million to settle allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Act, the Stark Statute, and the False Claims Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
Adventist Health allegedly improperly...
The United States filed a second false claims action against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. alleging that they paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe Novartis pharmaceutical products that were reimbursed by federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced last week.
The government alleges that from January 2001 through November 2011, Novartis...
California-based biotechnology company Amgen, Inc. will pay the United States $24.9 million to settle allegations that Amgen knowingly caused the filing of false claims to the federal government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Amgen allegedly gave kickbacks to pharmacy providers Omnicare, Inc., PharMerica Corporation, and Kindred Healthcare, Inc. in return for...
A federal jury found for whistleblowers in reaching a verdict that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. knowingly provided fraudulent claims to the federal government under the flood insurance program for Hurricane Katrina regarding damage to at least one home, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday. In reaching its special verdict, the jury found that State Farm...
Fluor Corp. has agreed to pay a $1.1 million settlement to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act when it allegedly used federal money to pay lobbyists, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
Fluor Hanford operated the Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) training center for the Department of Energy from 2005 to 2009....
CDW-Government LLC (CDW-G), a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois company CDW Corporation, has agreed to pay $5.66 million to resolve false claims allegations in connection with a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
CDW-G allegedly improperly charged government purchasers for shipping, sold products to the U.S....
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...
