Posted on August 30, 2013
Shands Healthcare, which operates a network of health care providers in Florida, including a teaching hospital and a medical center, has agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other...
Posted on August 28, 2013
The Environmental Research Center (ERC) filed a suit against Clif Bar & Company, alleging unwarned exposures to lead in violation of Proposition 65. ERC alleges that several of Clif Bar’s products contain lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause reproductive harm,...
Posted on August 28, 2013
The U.S. government has filed suit against PharMerica Corp. for violations of the False Claims Act and the Controlled Substances Act by dispensing controlled drugs without valid prescriptions and knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false claims to be submitted to the Medicare program...
Posted on August 28, 2013
Vermont Yankee, Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, will close by the end of 2014, Entergy Corporation announced earlier this week. The station will remain under the oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission throughout the decommission process.
The future of the Vermont Yankee...
Posted on August 27, 2013
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has entered judgment for more than $17 million against Dr. Ishtiaq Malik and his two companies, Ishtiaq Malik M.D., P.C. and Advanced Nuclear Diagnostics, for submitting false nuclear cardiology claims to federal and state health care programs,...
Posted on August 27, 2013
The Chanler Group has received certification, required by the settlement agreement with TCG client Russell Brimer, that Wolters Kluwer’s vinyl and PVC notebooks offered for sale in California have been reformulated to contain less than 0.1% of DEHP. As a result, the final civil penalty...
Posted on August 23, 2013
Northwestern University has agreed to pay the United States government $2.93 million to resolve allegations of cancer research grant fraud committed by a former researcher and physician at the university’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Center for Cancer in Chicago, the U.S. Department of...
Posted on August 22, 2013
Dubuis Health System and Southern Crescent Hospital for Specialty Care, Inc. (Southern Crescent) have agreed to pay $8 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....
Posted on August 22, 2013
Though Coca-Cola has reformulated its products both within and without California to no longer contain the cancer-causing chemical 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), Pepsi products purchased outside of California still contain 4-MEI, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) announced earlier this month....
Posted on August 22, 2013
Glideaway has issued a recall of Sleepharmony Metal Youth Beds in pink because the surface paint contains lead in excess of federal standards. The bed is a twin size, made of metal, and has three pink heart-shaped designs on both the headboard and the footboard. The recalled beds were...
