healthcare fraud

December 5, 2014
Rite Aid Corporation has paid the federal government $2.99 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid programs by inappropriately using gift cards as inducements, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week. The settlement resolves allegations that Rite Aid offered illegal...
November 26, 2014
The federal government has intervened in two lawsuits filed against Creekside Hospice II LLC, its holding company Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. (SKG), and Skilled Healthcare LLC (SKH), alleging that these entities knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday. The Medicare and Medicaid...
October 29, 2014
EBI LLC, doing business as Biomet Spine and Bone Healing Technologies and Biomet Inc., has agreed to pay $6.07 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs including Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.  EBI is a medical device company located in Parsippany...
November 12, 2014
CareAll Management LLC has agreed to pay $25 million to the federal government and the State of Tennessee in order to settle allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. This settlement resolves allegations that CareAll overstated the severity of...
November 3, 2014
Dignity Health has agreed to pay $37 million to settle allegations that 13 of its hospitals knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health programs Medicare and TRICARE for patients who could have been treated on an outpatient basis, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.  The settlement resolves allegations that 13 Dignity...
October 24, 2014
DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc. has agreed to pay $350 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs by paying kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week. The settlement today resolves allegations...
October 22, 2014
Two groups of Houston-based diagnostic centers have agreed to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs for $2.6 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. One group of centers, which operates under the name One Step Diagnostic and is owned and controlled by Fuad Rehman Cochinwala...
October 10, 2014
Extendicare Health Services has agreed to pay $38 million to the federal government and eight state governments to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for worthless nursing services and medically unreasonable and unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services, the U.S. Department of Justice...
September 26, 2014
Caremark L.L.C., operated by CVS Caremark Corporation, has agreed to pay the U.S. federal government $6 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicaid for prescription drug beneficiaries who were eligible for drug benefits under Medicaid-administered private health plans, the U.S. Department of Justice...
September 24, 2014
Pennsylvania-based Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC has agreed to pay $56.5 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.  Shire manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, including Adderall XR, Vyvanse, and Daytrana, which are approved for the treatment of...