False Claims Act Roundup: $14.1 Million Recovered Thanks to Whistleblowers
In mid-to-late April and into May, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recovered $14.1 million from three False Claims Act ...
Tag: Medicare fraud
Electronic Health Record Company To Pay $500,000 To Settle False Claims Allegations
A New Jersey medical records company settled a qui tam whistleblower complaint with the U.S. government. Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas ...
Whistleblower Wins $57 Million Settlement Against Largest Not-For-Profit Health Care Agency in the Country
On June 25, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) agreed to pay $57 million to the government to ...
Florida Hospice Company Agrees to $3.2 Million Settlement for False Claims Act Liability
On July 8, Hope Hospice of Fort Myers, Florida, agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle allegations of Medicare, Medicaid, ...
Houston Pharmacist and Wife Sentenced in $21 Million Health Care Fraud
George Philip Tompkins, 75, the president of Houston-based pharmaceutical company Piney Point Pharmacy and his wife Marene Kathryn Tompkins, 68, ...
DOJ Makes Arrest in Fight Against Fraudulent COVID-19 Products
Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it arrested an individual who was selling fake products on eBay claiming it ...
Medicare Recipients Targeted by Fraudsters Taking Advantage of COVID-19 Crisis, Feds Say
Medicare fraud scam artists are preying on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, NBC West Palm Beach (WPTV) reports. Offering fake tests ...
VA Clinics’ Delay in Scheduling Appointments Results in FCA Settlement
A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contractor will pay $1.85 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims ...
DOJ to Police Nursing Home Industry Using False Claims Act
The Department of Justice’s new initiative targeting criminally negligent nursing homes creates a unique opportunity, under the False Claims Act, ...
Whistleblowers help expose kickback schemes disguised as patient assistance programs.
Whistleblowers are playing a key role in revealing Medicare kickback schemes disguised as so-called patient assistance programs. In April, five ...
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