qui tam lawsuit

April 10, 2015
Virginia-based Health Diagnostics Laboratory Inc. (HDL) and California-based Singulex Inc. have agreed to pay $48.5 million to resolve allegations that the companies violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by paying remuneration to physicians in exchange for patient referrals and billing federal health care programs for medically unnecessary testing, the...
September 19, 2014
M.K. Battery and its parent company, East Penn Manufacturing, have agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Department of Defense, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported earlier this week. M.K. Battery produced backup batteries that operate Humvee turrets in the event that the engine...
March 13, 2014
Keith Edwards, the whistleblower who provided tips that led to JPMorgan & Chase’s $614 million False Claims Act settlement, will receive $63.9 million as his portion of the settlement, the Chicago Tribune reported last week.  Edwards was formerly an employee of JPMorgan. JPMC admitted that, for more than a decade, it approved thousands of Federal Housing...
March 14, 2014
CLP HealthcareServices, the parent company of Hospice Compassus, has agreed to pay $3.92 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama announced yesterday. Hospices provide palliative care...
March 7, 2014
Sea Star Line LLC and Horizon Lines LLC have agreed to pay $3.4 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the federal government by fixing the prices of government cargo transportation contracts between the United States and Puerto Rico, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.  Sea Star Line...
March 6, 2014
SelfRefind and PremierTox LLC have agreed to pay $15.75 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Kentucky’s Medicaid program for tests that were medically unnecessary, more expensive than those performed, or billed in violation of the Stark Law, the Department of Justice announced.  Drs. Bryan Wood...
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 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 18, 2014
Vector Planning and Service Inc. (VPSI) has agreed to pay the government $6.5 million to settle False Claim Act allegations that the company inflated claims for payments under several Navy contracts, the Justice Department announced today. VPSI, an information technology and systems engineering firm, has a number of contracts with the U.S. Navy to provide information...