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Medical Device Manufacturer Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 31, 2012 that the large medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $3.65 million to settle civil claims made...
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Large U.S. Drug Wholesaler To Pay $151 Million To Settle Claims
McKesson Corp., a large drug wholesaler in the United States, has agreed to pay $151 million to the District of Columbia and 29 U.S. states in order to settle claims that it inflated the prices of...
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Skilled Nursing Facilities Received $1.5 Billion In Inappropriate Medicare...
Earlier this month, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report entitled “Inappropriate Payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities Cost Medicare More...
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Is This The Largest Case Of Medicare Fraud Ever?
A Denver, Colorado-based company called DaVita Inc. (“DaVita”) is a $7 billion company and one of the largest dialysis companies in the United States, with about 2,000 dialysis centers located...
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Federal Health Care Fraud Reported By The U.S. Eastern District Of Michigan...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan has filed its Annual Report for 2012 (“Annual Report”) that highlights some of its activities and accomplishments during 2012. The Annual...
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South Carolina Hospital Hit With $40 Million Verdict For Illegal Kickbacks
After four weeks of trial in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, on May 8, 2013 a South Carolina hospital was found to have paid illegal kickbacks to 19 doctors and...
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Medicare Fraud Schemes Result In 89 Charged With $223 Million In False Billings
On May 14, 2013, the U.S. Attorney General and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that 89 people in eight U.S. cities were charged with participating...
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D.C. Cardiologist Ordered To Pay More Than $17 Million For Fraudulent Claims
Earlier this week, a nuclear cardiologist who has practiced in the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) since 2002, and two of his companies, had a judgment entered against them in the United States...
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Medical Firm Agrees To Pay $14.5 Million To Settle Medicare Overbilling...
On July 3, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Tacoma, Washington-based Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. (“Sound Inpatient”), a provider of hospitalists and other physicians to 70...
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Kentucky Hospital Settles Unnecessary Stent Claims
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced on January 28, 2014 that a Kentucky hospital has agreed to pay the United States $16.5 million to resolve civil claims that it...
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Medicare False Claims Whistleblower To Receive $15M
An Alabama nurse will receive $15 million as her share of the settlement proceeds from a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit she filed against her former employer, a Louisiana-based home healthcare...
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$9.9M False Claims Settlement To Be Paid By Medtronic
On May 28, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Medtronic, Inc., the large medical device manufacturer based in Fridley, Minnesota, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $9.9 million to...
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