Alaska Airlines
A federal class action accuses Alaska Airlines of encouraging online customers to buy travel insurance from its preferred provider, nonparty Allianz Global Assistance, from whom it allegedly receives kickbacks.
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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 moreOpioid Producer Settles Kickback Case for $225M
Opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics agreed to pay $225 million to settle a U.S federal government probe of the company’s marketing and kickback scheme involving the distribution of a sublingual opioid spray, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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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.”
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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 moreTriple the Cost of a Shower Valve: How to Cheat the Navy
Fernando Barroso Sr. and Theodore Bauer launched a six-year scheme that resulted in more than $1.2 million in phony invoices for work that was never performed.
Read moreWhistleblower Fights to Restore Hospital Kickback Claims
Depending on who you ask, a case on appeal Friday in the 11th Circuit is either the latest chapter in a saga of brazen health care fraud by Hospital Corporation of America or the work of an overzealous whistleblower looking to capitalize on the company’s past misdeeds.
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SEC Goes After Trader for Kickback Scheme on IPO Info
The Securities Exchange Commission claims in court that stock trader Adam Rentzer, 52, paid undisclosed cash kickbacks to a broker
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Connecticut brought a suit Tuesday that accuses Assured Rx, NLM LLC and 12 people of costing state taxpayers $11 million in a prescription drug kickback scheme.
Read moreSecond Circuit Puts Kibosh on Allergan Whistleblower
A former Allergan employee should not have been allowed to advance a whistleblower suit by amending a complaint that was considered untimely, the Second Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read more11th Circuit: AIDS Organization Didn’t Offer Kickbacks
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation did not violate the Anti-Kickback Statute when it gave its employees bonuses for referring HIV-positive patients to its own healthcare services, the 11th Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreEx-Dallas Superintendent Sued Over School-Bus Bribery
The defunct Dallas County Schools bus agency sued its former superintendent and a stop-arm vendor, claiming they orchestrated a massive pay-to-play bribery conspiracy that bilked taxpayers out of $125 million.
Read moreFormer Valeant, Philidor Executives Convicted of Fraud
A federal jury returned guilty verdicts Tuesday morning in the fraud trial of former executives from Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the mail-order pharmacy it helped create.
Read moreHospital Owner Gets 5 Years for Kickbacks & Fraud
The former owner of Pacific Hospital in Long Beach was sentenced Friday to 5 years and 3 months in federal prison for a 15-year, $500 million healthcare fraud, federal prosecutors said.
Read moreAnthem Sues Opioid Maker Over Kickback Scheme
Health insurer Anthem has sued Insys Therapeutics, claiming the company bilked millions from the insurer by giving kickbacks to doctors for prescribing its opioid Subsys.
Read moreLA Hospital Pays $42 Million for False Claims
An acute care hospital in Los Angeles’ Chinatown will pay $42 million to settle federal accusations it submitted false claims to Medicare and MediCal for patients referred through doctors who were paid illegal kickbacks.
Read moreMissouri Hospitals Settle Medicaid-Billing Suit for $34M
Settling claims that its chemotherapy services were linked to an illegal referral scheme, two hospitals in southwest Missouri agreed Thursday to pay the U.S. government $34 million.
Read moreEx-Chicago Schools CEO Gets Four Years in Prison
The former head of Chicago Public Schools was sentenced to four and a half years in prison Friday for taking bribes and kickbacks in exchange for handing out lucrative contracts to a previous employer.
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Wells Fargo Accused of Sacrificial Firings After Fine
Fired in the wake of Wells Fargo’s mortgage-kickback scandal, nine former staffers claim in court that the supervisors who instructed the illegal activity kept their jobs.
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