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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- December 16, 2016

Posted  December 16, 2016

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Justice Department recovers over $4.7 billion from FCA cases in 2016 — Of the $4.7 billion recovered, $2.5 billion came from the health care industry, including drug companies, medical device companies, hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories, and physicians, marking the seventh consecutive year health care fraud recoveries have exceeded $2 billion. The next largest recoveries, nearly $1.7 billion, came from the financial industry in the wake of the housing and mortgage fraud crisis, which is the second highest annual recovery in this area.  DOJ

Forest Laboratories and Forest Pharmaceuticals to pay $38 million to resolve kickback allegations — The settlement resolves allegations that Forest violated the Anti-Kickback Statute by providing payments and meals to certain physicians in connection with speaker programs about Bystolic®, Savella®, or Namenda® between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2011.  The United States contends that the payments and meals were intended as improper inducements because Forest provided these benefits even when the programs were cancelled, when no licensed health care professionals attended the programs, or when the same attendees had attended multiple programs over a short period of time.  DOJ

Uber whistleblower says employees used company systems to stalk people – Whistleblower Ward Spangenberg, Uber’s former head of information security compliance, alleged in a lawsuit that between March 2015 and February 2016, Uber employees were “able to track high-profile politicians, celebrities, and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees, including ex-boyfriends/girlfriends, and ex-spouses.”  NBC

Administrator of Miami-area home health agency convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud – Raciel Leon, the manager of Mercy Home Care Inc., who was also a billing employee for D&D&D Home Health Care Inc., and his co-conspirators used the companies to submit false claims to Medicare that were based on services that were not medically necessary, not actually provided and for patients that were procured through the payment of illegal kickbacks to doctors and patient recruiters.  In an attempt to support the false claims, Leon’s co-conspirators forged prescriptions and other medical records, and Leon submitted claims to Medicare based on the falsified documentation.  DOJ

China’s $8.6 billion P2P fraud trial starts — Criminal prosecution of 26 people involved in China’s biggest alleged online fraud – a nearly 60 billion yuan ($8.64 billion) case involving online peer-to-peer lender Ezubao – has started in Beijing.  The charges include fraudulent fund-raising, illegally taking public deposits, smuggling precious metals, illegal possession of weapons and undocumented border crossings.   Reuters


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