Drayer Physical Therapy Settles False Claims Act Case for $7 Million
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina announced on July 5, 2016 that it settled health care fraud claims against Drayer Physical…
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Home-Based Care Provider Liable for Millions After Admitting It Violated the Federal False Claims Act
The Department of Justice announced on July 7, 2016 that MD2U Holding Company (including its related companies and owners) a Louisville based provider of home-based…
Read More »Kickback Cases in Laboratory Settings: Still Alive and Well
A few short months ago, in the closing days of 2015, the Government announced that Pathway Genomics Corporation (“Pathway”) paid $4 million dollars to resolve…
Read More »Relators Play Important Role in Exposing Copycat Healthcare Fraud Schemes
In November 2012, a clinical social worker filed a False Claims Act qui tam action against his former employer, home healthcare company. A year later,…
Read More »Qui tam Relators and State Entity Hospitals
In 2000, the United States Supreme Court held that states cannot be sued in a private action under the False Claims Act. Vermont Agency of…
Read More »False Claims Act Reaches Alleged Genetic Testing Kickback Scheme
With the government healthcare dollars flowing into genetic testing, it was only a matter of time before False Claims Act settlements popped up in this…
Read More »The Connection Between Khloe Kardashian and the False Claims Act
Khloe Kardashian reportedly contracted a staph infection while she was visiting her husband Lamar Odom, who has been hospitalized for a month. She reportedly has…
Read More »False Claims Act Liability Attaches to Hospitals that Allow Medically Unnecessary Surgeries
Hospitals must ensure that the services provided in their facilities are medically reasonable and necessary. when a hospital turns a jaundiced eye to these responsibilities,…
Read More »When Self-Interest Trumps to Public Interest: Whistleblowers to the Rescue
Senator Chuck Grassley championed False Claims Act legislation in Congress. He recently re-iterated the importance of qui tam whistleblowers. Without information provided by those working…
Read More »Hospitals Retain Physician Practices in Order to Secure Patient Referrals
In recent months, the number of Stark-predicted False Claims Act qui tam recoveries has skyrocketed, returning hundreds of millions of dollars to the United States Treasury. While…
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