US Obtains $114M FCA Judgement in Kickbacks Case
Posted 05/31/18
On May 23, the US District Court in South Carolina issued judgment for the US for roughly $114M against three individuals, LaTonya Mallory, Floyd Dent III, and Robert Johnson, for violating the FCA by paying kickbacks to doctors in exchange for patient referrals. The defendants also caused two labs to bill Medicare, TRICARE, and Medicaid for medically unnecessary tests. The judgment follows a January jury verdict that...
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Maryland physician Sureshkumar Muttath agreed to pay more than $1.5 million to settle claims he violated the 
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CityMD, a company that manages over 80 urgent care clinics in and around 
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The 
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Banner Health has agreed to pay over $18 million to settle allegations that 12 of its hospitals in Arizona and Colorado knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare by admitting patients who could have been treated on a less costly outpatient basis. Headquartered in Arizona, Banner Health owns and operates 28 acute-care hospitals in multiple states.
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On Wednesday, former pharmaceutical sales representative Steven Butcher admitted to running a $45 million scheme to swindle both federally-funded and private health care benefit programs. Butcher was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, a law designed to remove financial incentives...
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On Monday, a federal jury in Miami unanimously convicted Monty Grow of running a compound pharmaceutical drug conspiracy that bilked $20 million from TRICARE, a healthcare program for military members and their families. Grow was a star linebacker at the University of Florida in the early 1990s and spent two seasons as a cornerback in the NFL.
Prosecutors accused Grow of...
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The United States Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a federal jury returned a unanimous verdict against Floyd Calhoun “Cal” Dent and two co-conspirators, Robert Bradford Johnson and LaTonya Mallory, for defrauding Medicare and Tricare. The government alleged that Mr. Dent and his co-conspirators paid kickbacks to physicians so they would order medically...
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AmeriCare Ambulance Service, Inc. and its sister company, AmeriCare ALS, Inc. have reached a $5.5 million settlement with the government, resolving allegations that AmeriCare defrauded Medicare by billing for medically unnecessary ambulance transportation services. According to the government’s complaint, AmeriCare submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and TRICARE for...