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December 20, 2013
The Justice Department secured $3.8 billion for settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud against the government in the 2013 fiscal year, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. This amount, which is the second largest annual recovery of its type in history, brings total recoveries under the False Claims Act, since 2009, to $17 billion – nearly...
December 19, 2013
Cardiologist Dr. Elie H. Korban (Korban) will pay $1.15 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that he billed Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary cardiac stent placements, the Justice Department announced today. Cardiac stents are mesh tubes placed in coronary arteries of patients to keep their arteries open during the treatment of coronary heart disease....
December 12, 2013
Northrop Grumman Corp. (Northrop ) has paid the United States $11.4 million to settle a government claim for penalties provided under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and False Claims Act allegations stemming from its failure to abide by a 2002 settlement agreement, the Justice Department announced earlier this week. Northrop allegedly charged federal contracts certain...
December 10, 2013
The government has intervened in a lawsuit against IPC The Hospitalist Co. Inc. (IPC), and its subsidiaries, under the False Claims Act, for submitting false claims to federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced yesterday.  IPC, one of the largest providers of hospitalist services in the US, employs physicians and other health care providers who work in...
December 9, 2013
Lynch Ambulance has agreed to pay more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit, under the False Claims Act, alleging it received overpayments from the Medicare program and other federal health care programs for transporting patients who were not eligible for ambulance transports, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced last month. Allegedly, Lynch Ambulance knowingly billed...
December 4, 2013
Caremark LLC (Caremark) has agreed to pay the government more than $4.2 million to settle allegations, under the False Claims Act, that they knowingly failed to reimburse Medicaid for prescription drug costs, the Justice Department announced earlier this week. Caremark is operated by CVS Caremark Corp., one of the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company and...
December 3, 2013
Several California companies and individuals that formerly supplied beef to the National School Lunch Program have agreed to settle allegations, under the False Claims Act, of inhumane handling of cattle, circumventing appropriate inspection of non-ambulatory disabled (“downer”) cattle and false representations regarding their eligibility to process beef, the...
November 27, 2013
Vantage Oncology LLC (Vantage) has agreed to pay the government more than $2.08 million to settle allegations, under the False Claims Act, that it knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare for radiation oncology services, the Justice Department announced last week.  The government alleged that Vantage double billed and overbilled Medicare for certain procedures, billed...
November 22, 2013
Iraqi Consultants and Construction Bureau (ICCB) has agreed to pay the U.S. $2.7 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by bribing a U.S. government official to obtain U.S. government contracts in Iraq, the Department of Justice announced earlier this month.  The government alleged that ICCB, a privately owned construction company...
November 22, 2013
Baptist Health Systems has agreed to pay $3.7 million to the United States Department of Justice to settle allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by filing false claims for reimbursement under the Medicare program, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced earlier this week.  Baptist Health Systems allegedly filed improper claims with the Medicare...