The United States Department of Justice announced December 17, 2009 that the U.S. and state of New York have entered into settlement agreements with three…
Read More »Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo, Iowa has agreed to pay the United States $4.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act,…
Read More »According to the U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper of the Northern District of Texas, Harris Methodist HEB Hospital, a 284 bed acute-care facility, will pay…
Read More »A federal law that takes effect in January 2007 requires the country’s hospitals and nursing homes to educate their employees and officers on how to…
Read More »Last month, the United States intervened in a qui tam lawsuit accusing Renal Care Group Inc. (RCG) and Renal Care Group Supply Company (RCGSC) of…
Read More »Cathedral Rock Corporation of Ft. Worth, Texas, which operates five nursing homes in St. Louis, Missouri has to now defend itself against a medicaid fraud…
Read More »A former contractor of Integris blew the whistle on Integris Health, Inc., alleging that it was submitting inflated claims to Medicare. The complaint stated that…
Read More »American Medical Response (AMR), based in Greenwood, Colorado and considered one of the largest U.S. ambulance providers has paid the United States over $9 million…
Read More »Answer: Monitoring postmarketing study commitments. The FDA lacks an effective system for monitoring postmarketing study commitments. See the latest OIG Report, dated June 2006.
Read More »The “Stark” statute, 42 U.S.C. §1395nn, is also known as the Physician Self-Referral Law or Section 1877 of the Social Security Act. The Stark law…
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