False Claims Act
September 30, 2016
Vibra Healthcare LLC (Vibra), a national hospital chain headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $32.7 million, plus interest, to resolve claims that Vibra knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary services, the Department of Justice announced earlier his week.
Vibra operates...
August 15, 2016
Atrium Medical Corp. has agreed to pay $11.5 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care program Medicare and also violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Standly Hamilton LLP announced last month.
Atrium allegedly engaged in an extensive nationwide scheme to promote its iCast...
August 3, 2016
Jacintoport International LLC (Jacintoport) and Seaboard Marine Ltd. (Seaboard Marine) have agreed to pay $1.075 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with a warehousing and logistics contract for the storage and redelivery of humanitarian food aid, the U.S. Department of Justice...
August 2, 2016
The government has filed suit under the False Claims Act against Derish M. Wolff and Salvatore J. Pepe, respectively the former CEO and CFO of Louis Berger Group Inc. (LBG), for conspiring to overbill the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other government agencies for costs incurred performing reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other...
July 28, 2016
The Lexington County Health Services District Inc. d/b/a Lexington Medical Center located in West Columbia, South Carolina, has agreed to pay $17 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law) and the False Claims Act by maintaining improper financial arrangements with 28 physicians, the U.S. Department of Justice announced...
July 14, 2016
Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care has agreed to pay $18 million to settle allegations that it submittedor caused the submission of false claims to federal health care program Medicare, for hospice care for patients who were not eligible because they were not terminally ill, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday. Evercare, now known as Optum Palliative and...
July 7, 2016
En Pointe Gov. Inc., En Pointe Technologies Inc., En Pointe Technologies Sales Inc., Dominguez East Holdings LLC and Din Global Corp., all of Gardena, California, have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying that En Pointe Gov. Inc. was a small business in order to obtain contracts set aside for small businesses and...
July 1, 2016
Florida cardiologist Dr. Asad Qamar and his practice, the Institute of Cardiovascular Excellence (ICE), will pay $2 million, plus release any claim to $5.3 million in suspended Medicare funds, to resolve a lawsuit alleging that they improperly billed Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically unnecessary procedures and paid kickbacks to patients by waiving Medicare...
June 22, 2016
Salix Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $54 million to settle allegations that the company violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by using “speaker programs” as kickbacks to doctors to induce them to prescribe Salix drugs and medical devices, which were then reimbursed by federal health care programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of...
June 7, 2016
Genentech Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals LLC have agreed to collectively pay $67 to resolve allegations that the pharmaceutical companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims in connection with misleading statements about the effectiveness of the drug Tarceva in treating non-small cell lung cancer, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday....
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