The owners of Global Medical Direct, LLC and Global Medical Inc., have agreed to pay $7 million to resolve allegations against them in connection with a scheme to submit false claims to the federal Medicare and Tricare healthcare programs, the United States Attorney’s Office announced yesterday. Global Medical, Inc. and its parent company, Global Medical Direct, LLC, are...
Kmart Corporation has agreed to pay the United States and 32 participating states a total of $2.5 million to settle allegations of false prescription claims by its national pharmacy centers to government health insurance programs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced yesterday.
Kmart allegedly violated the False Claims Act by billing government health care programs (...
Boston Scientific Corp. and its subsidiaries, Guidant LLC, Guidant Sales LLC and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (Guidant), have agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that Guidant knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare federal health program, the Justice Department announced yesterday. The government alleged that Guidant knowingly sold...
A federal judge in San Francisco has denied motions for partial summary judgment made by both McKesson Corporation and the Commonwealth of Virginia. The case, involving violations of the Virginia Fraud Against the Taxpayers Act (VFATA), Virginia’s state equivalent of the federal False Claims Act, will proceed to trial. Virginia alleges that...
