healthcare fraud
March 9, 2015
Recovery Home Care and National Home Care Holdings LLC have agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that the Recovery Home Care entities knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. The Recovery Home Care entities provide home health care services to Medicare beneficiaries and were...
February 23, 2015
Two Florida medical doctors and their wives have agreed to pay, collectively, $1.13 million to settle allegations and they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
The United States alleged that A Plus and its owner, Tracy Nemerofsky, engaged in a scheme to increase...
February 13, 2015
AstraZeneca LP has agreed to pay the federal government $7.9 million in order to settle allegations that AstraZeneca knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
The settlement resolves allegations that AstraZeneca agreed to provide remuneration to Medco Health...
February 11, 2015
Medtronic Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs in connection to a medical procedure known as “SubQ Stimulation,” the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The United States alleged that Medtronic...
February 9, 2015
Good Shepherd Hospice Inc. and its related entities has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve allegations that Good Shepherd knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for hospice patients who were not terminally ill, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last Friday. Good Shepherd provides hospice services in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas,...
February 6, 2015
ev3, Inc., formerly known as Fox Hollow Technologies Inc., has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for unnecessary inpatient admissions, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
The United States alleged that Fox Hollow knowingly caused 12 hospitals located...
January 26, 2015
Florida-based Associates in Dermatology and its owner, Dr. Michael Steppie, has agreed to pay $3 million to settle allegations that the practice knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs for unnecessary medical procedures that were, in some cases, allegedly performed by unlicensed, uncredentialed, and unsupervised employees,...
January 9, 2015
Daiichi Sankyo Inc. has agreed to pay $39 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and submitted or caused the submission of false claims to state and federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Daiichi Sankyo allegedly paid kickbacks to induce physicians to prescribe Daiichi drugs,...
False Claims Act, healthcare fraud, Medicaid Fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
January 5, 2015
The federal government has intervened in two lawsuits against Florida cardiologist Dr. Asad Qamar and his physician group, the Institute for Cardiovascular Excellence PLLC (ICE), alleging that Qamar and ICE knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary medical procedures, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today....
December 29, 2014
The federal government has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against Omnicare Inc., alleging that the company solicited and received millions of dollars in kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
In its complaint, the United States alleges that Omnicare solicited and received kickbacks from...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicaid Fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower
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