Medicare Fraud
Synonyms
- Medicare Fraid
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...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower Award
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...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower
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...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicaid Fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
September 10, 2014
The U.S. federal government has filed two complaints against a Michigan neurosurgeon (Dr. Aria Sabit), a spinal implant company (Reliance Medical Systems), two of that company’s distributorships (Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies), and the company’s owners (Brett Berry, John Hoffman, and Adam Pike), the U.S. Department of Justice announced on...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower
September 3, 2014
The United States federal government has elected to intervene in two whistleblower lawsuits that allege Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care, now known as Optum Palliative and Hospice Care, knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
The Medicare hospice benefit is available for patients who...
August 19, 2014
Arizona non-profit Carondelet Health Network, doing business as Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital and Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz., has agreed to pay the United States $35 million to settle allegations that the hospitals knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs, the U.S....
August 6, 2014
Community Health Systems (CHS), the nation’s largest operator of acute care hospitals, has agreed to pay $98.15 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to government health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week. One of the company’s affiliated hospitals,...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower
July 23, 2014
Alabama-based Infirmary Health System (IHS), two affiliated clinics, and Diagnostic Physicians Group P.C. (DPG) have agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted or cause the submission of false claims to the Medicare program, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
Two IHS affiliated clinics—IMC-Diagnostic and...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
July 21, 2014
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint against Midwest Neurosurgeons LLC and its owner, Dr. Sanjay Fonn, and DS Medical LLC and its owner, Deborah Seeger, for alleged violations of the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute in connection with spinal implants and supplies used during surgeries performed by Dr. Fonn.
The Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits...
June 25, 2014
Ohio-based Omnicare, the nation’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical services to nursing homes, has agreed to pay $124.24 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
The settlement resolves allegations that...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, Medicaid Fraud, Medicare Fraud, Qui Tam, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
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