False Claims Act
False Claims
Pacific Health Corp. and Los Angeles Doctors Hospital Corp. must reimburse Medicare and Medi-Cal to the tune of $560,000, a federal judge ruled, siding with a nurse who said the defendants improperly committed patients to locked psychiatric units in exchange for kickbacks.
Read moreWhistleblower Suit Chugs Forward Over Time-Limit Debate
Advancing a suit where a defense contractor is said to have taken advantage of a legally blind official, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the whistleblower claims were not brought too late.
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The United States claims that JD Equipment de Mexico and South Point Equipment LLC submitted fraudulent documents to the government to draw $1.3 million from an insured line of credit.
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Advancing false-claims allegations that pharmaceutical companies paid kickbacks to providers that prescribe its anti-inflammatory drug, a federal judge found that one could conclude the government’s “true motivation [in moving to dismiss] is animus toward the relator.”
Read moreHigh Court Appears to Back Generous Time Limit for Whistleblower
A government contractor said to have lined its pockets in part by tricking a legally blind official appeared unlikely Tuesday to have the Supreme Court nix claims against it under the False Claims Act.
Read moreMedical Kickbacks
Covidien LP will pay $17.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act to induce physicians to buy its vein ablation products, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said.
Read moreFired Air Base Tech Gets New Shot at Pleading Retaliation
A technician who was critical of how United Airlines serviced military-transport planes persuaded the Fourth Circuit this week to let his retaliation claim take flight.
Read moreFeds Pile On
The Justice Department said Tuesday it will intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing California health care provider Sutter Health and its affiliate Palo Alto Medical Foundation of violating the False Claims Act by faking the health statuses of Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees.
Read moreBritish Airways, Iberia Airlines Settle Mail Dispute for $5.8M
British Airways and Iberia Airlines agreed Tuesday to pay $5.8 million to settle claims that they lied to the U.S. Postal Service about what time they delivered foreign mail leaving the United States.
Read moreDefense Settlement
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation agreed Friday to pay more than $25 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by inflating employees’ hours working on a defense contract in the Middle East.
Read more$270 Million Fine
Much-sued DaVita Medical Holdings will pay $270 million to settle claims by the Justice Department that it overbilled Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act.
Read morePrime Healthcare
Prime Healthcare Services, its subsidiaries and its founder and CEO Dr. Prem Reddy will pay $65 million to settle claims they knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who required only less costly, outpatient care and billing for more expensive diagnoses than the patients had, the Justice Department said Friday.
Read moreHundreds Charged in Massive Opioid Crackdown
In what Attorney General Jeff Session called the biggest health care fraud enforcement action in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Thursday that it charged 601 people in dozens of cases involving opioid prescriptions.
Read moreOverbilling
The attorney general of Connecticut hit a professional counselor with a false-claims complaint Tuesday, saying the Norwich woman collected $250,000 under the Connecticut Medical Assistance Program for services she never provided.
Read moreBulletproof Vest Maker Demurs on DOJ Settlement
In a 14-year-old lawsuit over defective bulletproof vests, a federal judge urged one of the last defendants standing Wednesday to lay down his armor and settle with the government.
Read moreLance Armstrong Settles $100M Lawsuit With US Government
Lance Armstrong reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government in a whistleblower lawsuit that could have sought $100 million in damages from the cyclist who was stripped of his record seven Tour de France victories after admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout much of his career.
Read moreSilly Petition or Federal Fraud? The 10th Circuit Will Decide
A man convicted of asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pay his debts entertained an incredulous 10th Circuit panel Thursday.
Read moreDoctor Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Against DC Hospital
Casting himself as a whistleblower in a federal complaint, a doctor says he lost his job after reporting Medicare overbilling to the D.C. City Council.
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