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December 27, 2013
Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay the United States $5.475 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce doctors to implant the company’s vascular products, the Justice Department announced today. Abbott is a global pharmaceuticals and health care products company.
The settlement...
False Claims Act, Fraud Against Government, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
December 16, 2013
After a decade-long legal battle, Dr. Van Pena won $1.35 million from the California’s state-run Sonoma Developmental Center for wrongful termination in connection with his attempts to report “gross medical negligence” in 2000, Petaluma360 reported.
Dr. Pena had worked at Sonoma Developmental Center, a full time care facility for over a thousand...
November 13, 2013
Ohio-based pharmacy service provider Omnicare Inc. has agreed to pay $120 million to settle allegations that the company violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act. Omnicare is one of the nation’s largest providers of pharmacy services to the elderly.
Omnicare allegedly offered skilled nursing facilities steep discounts for drugs for their Medicare...
October 18, 2013
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...
Fraud Against Government, Government Fraud, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Proposition 65, Qui Tam, The Chanler Group, Whistleblower Act, whistleblower attorney, Whistleblower awards
September 19, 2013
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...
October 2, 2013
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’...
September 25, 2013
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...
California, False Claims Act, Government Fraud, healthcare fraud, Medicare Fraud, Whistleblower, Whistleblower awards
September 17, 2013
Conax Florida Corp. and related companies have agreed to settle allegations that Conax knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. government in connection with improperly tested and non-conforming equipment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
Conax Florida Corp. designed and manufactured inertia reels and voltage references used...
September 13, 2013
Farideh Heidarpour, her billing company A.B.C. Billing Inc., and her son Ali Heidarpour (who was also her employee) have agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle allegations that her and her company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to workers’ compensation programs, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag announced...
April 29, 2008
In the enforcement action Brimer v. Royal Doulton USA, Inc., et al., the Honorable Nancy L. Davis approved a Consent Judgment on December 20, 2007. The Consent Judgment included an opt-in program which provided citizen enforcer Russell Brimer with the ability to send 60-Day Notices of Violation to each entity that submitted an Opt-In Stipulation. On April 29, 2008...
Baccarat, Cadmium, Citizen Enforcer, Lead, Proposition 65, Proposition 65 Warning, Reformulation, Royal Doulton, Russell Brimer, Whistleblower awards
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