healthcare fraud

February 28, 2014
Ohio-based Omnicare Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $4.19 million to resolve allegations that the company engaged in a kickback scheme in violation of the False Claims Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.  Omnicare provides pharmaceuticals and services to long-term care facilities and residents and other senior populations. The settlement...
February 26, 2014
Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) has agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to state and federal health care programs in connection with medical tests that were not performed or were medically unnecessary, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday. The settlement resolves...
February 25, 2014
Delaware-based Endo Health Solutions Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Endo) have agreed to pay $171.9 million to settle allegations that the company improperly marketed the prescription drug Lidoderm for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), resulting in false claims submitted to federal health care programs such as Medicaid, the...
February 21, 2014
The U.S. government has intervened in a False Claims Act Lawsuit against Tenet Healthcare Corp. and four of its hospitals in Georgia and South Carolina, as well as another hospital in Georgia that is owned by Health Management Associates (HMA), the Department of Justice announced earlier this week.  Tenet and HMA are two of the largest owner/operators of hospitals in the...
February 20, 2014
Washington-based EndoGastric Solutions has agreed to pay the U.S. government up to $5.25 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by misleading health care providers in how to bill federal health care programs and paying kickbacks to certain physicians, the Department of Justice announced yesterday. EndoGastric...
December 27, 2013
Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay the United States $5.475 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce doctors to implant the company’s vascular products, the Justice Department announced today.  Abbott is a global pharmaceuticals and health care products company. The settlement...
November 13, 2013
Ohio-based pharmacy service provider Omnicare Inc. has agreed to pay $120 million to settle allegations that the company violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act.  Omnicare is one of the nation’s largest providers of pharmacy services to the elderly. Omnicare allegedly offered skilled nursing facilities steep discounts for drugs for their Medicare...
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 18, 2013
Boston Scientific Corp. and its subsidiaries, Guidant LLC, Guidant Sales LLC and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (Guidant), have agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that Guidant knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare federal health program, the Justice Department announced yesterday. The government alleged that Guidant knowingly sold...
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...