Healthpoint Ltd. and DFB Pharmaceuticals have agreed to pay up to $48 million to resolve allegations that Healthpoint caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid programs for a non-FDA approved skin ointment, Xenaderm. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Healthpoint misrepresented Xenaderm’s regulatory status in its government reports and...
New York-based Park Avenue Medical Associates, P.C., Park Avenue Health Care Management LLC, and Park Avenue Health Care Management, Inc. (collectively “PAMA”) have agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
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The government will intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit against Florida-based A Plus Home Health Care, Inc. and its owner, Tracy Nemerofsky, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month. A Plus allegedly offered referring physicians’ spouses sham marketing positions with the company to induce the physicians to refer Medicare patients for its home health...
Whistleblower Peter Englander and settling party Master Magnetics, Inc. (“Master Magnetics”) entered into an out-of-court Settlement Agreement on April 25, 2013, which resolved Englander’s allegations that Master Magnetics sold hand tools with grips containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) in the State of California...
Excerpted from the full article at Forbes:
Clever moneymaking scheme: Visit any doctor or dentist in California. If you don't see signs warning you that the physician is using potentially harmful chemicals as defined by the state's Proposition 65 (e.g., mercury fillings), haul him into court and demand $2,500 for each day he didn't post the warnings. You get 25% of...
A federal judge increased United Technologies Corp.’s False Claims Act penalties by 40 percent, to $664.4 million, Reuters reported earlier this month. Last month, Connecticut-based UTC was found liable for $473 million in damages and penalties arising from a contract with the U.S. Air Force for fighter aircraft engine, the highest recovery ever obtained by the...
The San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Moore v. Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. on January 2, 2013. This enforcement action resolved citizen enforcer John Moore’s allegations that the defendant Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (“Stanley”) sold hand tools with grips containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)...
In the enforcement action Held v. Smiles Fashion Corporation, et al., the Santa Clara County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment on January 3, 2013, which resolved citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E.’s allegations that the defendant Smiles Fashion Corporation (“Smiles”) sold belts containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (...
Citizen enforcer John Moore and settling defendants New A.D.E., Inc. and Expressive Design Group, Inc. (collectively "ADE") entered into a Settlement Agreement on January 3, 2013, resolving Moore's allegations that ADE sold paper image gift bags with vinyl/PVC handles containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate ("DEHP") in the State of...
On January 4, 2013, the parties executed a Consent Judgment in Brimer v. Leap Year Publishing, LLC, et al., which resolved citizen enforcer Russell Brimer’s allegations that the defendant Leap Year Publishing, LLC (“Leap Year”) sold planners/calendars with vinyl covers containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) in the...
