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...
The lawsuit against Citizens Medical Center (Citizens), filed by Drs. Dakshesh Parikh, Harish Chandna, and Ajay Gaala, is moving forward after a federal judge denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the case. The doctors allege that Citizens violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false claims to federal health care...
A federal judge has ordered South Carolina-based Tuomey Healthcare System to pay $227 million for violations of the False Claims Act and the Stark Law.
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 to receive the referral fees associated with those doctors’...
California-based Kan-Di-Ki, doing business as Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology (Diagnostic Labs) has agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that the company violated both the federal and California False Claims Acts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Kan-Di-Ki allegedly paid kickbacks for the referral of mobile lab and radiology services...
Emory University has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that the university violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for clinical trial services that were not permitted by the Medicare and Medicaid rules, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
Providers generally are not permitted to bill Medicare for medical care and services...
Shands Healthcare, which operates a network of health care providers in Florida, including a teaching hospital and a medical center, has agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week....
The U.S. government has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. for violations of the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false claims to be submitted to the Medicare program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this month. The lawsuit...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has entered judgment for more than $17 million against Dr. Ishtiaq Malik and his two companies, Ishtiaq Malik M.D., P.C. and Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics, for submitting false nuclear cardiology claims to federal and state health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
The government’s...
Dubuis Health System and Southern Crescent Hospital for Specialty Care, Inc. (Southern Crescent) have agreed to pay $8 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month. Dubuis Health System manages long-term acute care hospitals in multiple...
Michigan-based healthcare practices Jackson Cardiology Associates (JCA) and Allegiance Health have agreed to pay a total of $4 million to settle allegations that the facilities knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.
JCA owner Dr. Jashu Patel and...
