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Mail Order Pharmacy Owner Settles False Claims Act Allegations of Kickbacks and Fraudulent Billing

Posted  10/7/25
prescription topical cream
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On September 26, Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba announced that California resident Andrew Do agreed to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act through illegal kickbacks and fraudulent billing practices at his three mail order pharmacies.

Do’s Pharmacies

From January 2016 through December 2020, Do owned and operated three mail...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, False Claims Act, qui tam,

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DOJ’s MSO Kickbacks Crackdown Continues with $6M Settlement

Posted  09/9/25
doctor's office with stethoscope
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team The Department of Justice recently announced a $6 million settlement from a laboratory CEO, physicians, and marketers who allegedly used management services organizations (“MSOs”) as vehicles for illegal kickback payments.1  MSOs are business entities that provide administrative and other services to healthcare providers, but in this case they were allegedly used to...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, False Claims Act, qui tam,

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Zakia Khan Pleads Guilty to $68M Adult Social Day Care and Home Health Care Medicaid Fraud Scheme in New York

Posted  08/12/25
Healthcare Fraud
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On August 6, the government announced that Zakia Khan pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to defraud Medicaid of roughly $68 million through kickbacks and bribes at two New York-based social adult day care centers that she owned in Coney Island called Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. (Happy Family) and Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc....

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Healthcare Fraud, Medicaid fraud, Upcoding,

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Government Secures $114.5M In False Claims Act Recoveries From Cancer Genetic Testing Kickback Scheme

Posted  07/22/25
lab testing
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team Last Thursday (July 17), the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the final False Claims Act recovery in a cancer genetic testing kickback scheme involving the Medicaid programs of Colorado, Georgia, and South Carolina. 1  Kevin Murdock, former owner and CEO of the now-defunct testing lab Premier Medical, agreed to a consent judgment of roughly $27.5...

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Catholic Health Pays Over $3M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  05/28/25
stack of hundred dollar bills
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On May 16, U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced that Catholic Health System, Inc. (CHS) agreed to pay $3,293,122.66 to settle False Claims Act allegations that it knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the Medicare program by engaging in improper financial relationships with physicians in violation of the Stark Law1.

About The Stark...

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CoreLife Eatery Admits to Pandemic Relief Fraud in Whistleblower Initiated Case, Will Pay $7.8M

Posted  05/20/25
Statue of Liberty wearing facemask
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On May 5, the government announced that the restaurant chain CoreLife Eatery, LLC admitted to misrepresenting its eligibility for pandemic relief funds. The business, which operates locations in Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, agreed to pay $7,809,373 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely certifying its eligibility...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, COVID-19, False Claims Act, qui tam,

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Genexe and Its Entities Will Pay $6M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations, Case Brought by Four Whistleblowers

Posted  05/13/25
DNA
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On April 23, the government announced that Genexe LLC, its marketing company Immerge, Inc., and two of its owners, Jason Green and Jason Gross, will pay $6 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute. The now-defunct Genexe once billed itself as a “one-stop-shop” for genetic and pharmacogenetic profiling,...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, False Claims Act, Healthcare Fraud, qui tam,

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Gilead Pays $202M to Settle False Claims Act Kickback Charges

Posted  05/5/25
HIV meds
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On April 29, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that California-based pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences agreed to pay $202 million to settle charges of violating the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.  Specifically, the government alleged Gilead provided financial inducements to physicians to speak at or attend sham medical conferences to induce them...

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$1B Medicare Scam: Kansas Resident Pleaded Guilty to Illegal Kickback Fraud Scheme

Posted  02/25/25
Medical professional at computer
On February 20, the DOJ announced that Johnson County, Kansas resident Gregory Schreck (50) pleaded guilty to operating DMERx, a web-based platform that created phony doctors’ orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of over $1 billion. He will receive a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Schreck admitted that he and his accomplices targeted 100,000+ Medicare beneficiaries to...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Medicare,

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LiveCare Inc. Resolves False Claims Act Allegations With $4.9 Million Settlement

Posted  02/14/25
money
Another settlement that resulted in a monetary award for folks who decided to blow the whistle. On January 31, United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that LiveCare Inc. agreed to pay approximately $4.9 million to resolve allegations that the Venice, Florida-based medical company violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act. LiveCare provides remote patient monitoring services to Type 2...

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