New York-based Parkshore Home Health Care, dba Renaissance Home Health Care, a home health care services agency, agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that it provided unqualified home health aides to home health agencies, who in turn sent these unqualified aides into the homes of Medicaid recipients throughout New York City and then billed the Medicaid program for...
Virginia-based Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has paid $11.75 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by charging inflated prices against grant money provided by the U.S. government to train first responder personnel to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
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Ohio-based companies TesTech and CESO have agreed to pay $2.88 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal agencies when they falsely claimed disadvantaged business status in order to obtain federal funds related to a number of federal transportation projects, the U.S. Department of Justice announced...
American Commercial Colleges Inc. (ACC), a Texas-based for-profit corporation, has agreed to pay the United States government up to $2.5 million, including interest, to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal student aid programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
In order to be eligible for...
ISTA Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of conspiracy to introduce a misbranded drug into interstate commerce and conspiracy to pay illegal remuneration in violation of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. In addition to criminal fines and asset forfeiture, ISTA has also entered into a civil...
Texas-based U.S. Renal Care has agreed to pay $7.3 million to resolve allegations that their subsidiary, Dialysis Corporation of America (DCA), violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to the Medicare program for more medication than was actually administered to dialysis patients, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today.
Epogen is an...
New Jersey-based C.R. Bard has agreed to pay the U.S. government $48.26 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare for brachytherapy seeds used to treat prostate cancer, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.
The United States alleged that from 1998 to 2006, Bard violated the Anti-Kickback Statute when the...
Adventist Health and its Los Angeles-based affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center have agreed to pay the United States and the State of California $14.1 million to settle allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Act, the Stark Statute, and the False Claims Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week.
Adventist Health allegedly improperly...
California-based biotechnology company Amgen, Inc. will pay the United States $24.9 million to settle allegations that Amgen knowingly caused the filing of false claims to the federal government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Amgen allegedly gave kickbacks to pharmacy providers Omnicare, Inc., PharMerica Corporation, and Kindred Healthcare, Inc. in return for...
A federal jury found for whistleblowers in reaching a verdict that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. knowingly provided fraudulent claims to the federal government under the flood insurance program for Hurricane Katrina regarding damage to at least one home, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday. In reaching its special verdict, the jury found that State Farm...
