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Tennessee Chiropractor Pays More Than $1.45 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  01/26/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team A Lenior City, Tennessee, chiropractor has paid $1.45 million, plus interest, to resolve False Claims Act violations. Matthew Anderson and his management company, PMC LLC, managed four pain clinics in Tennessee, most recently known as; Cookeville Center for Pain Management; Spinal Pain Solutions in Harriman; Preferred Pain Center of Grundy County in Gruetli Laager; and McMinnville...

Medical Device Company to Pay $7.62 Million FCA Settlement

Posted  01/24/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced a $7.62 million settlement with California-based DJO Global Inc. to resolve allegations that a DJO subsidiary falsely billed TRICARE for excessive and unnecessary supplies. The government alleged that the DJO subsidiary used an improper “assumptive selling” technique to induce TRICARE beneficiaries to order supplies that they did...

Lockheed Martin Agrees To Pay $4.4 Million To Resolve Claims It Provided Faulty Equipment To The Coast Guard

Posted  01/22/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The DOJ announced on Friday that Lockheed Martin Corporation had agreed to a $4.4 million settlement to resolve False Claims Act allegations regarding defective communications systems for the United States Coast Guard. The allegations centered on radio equipment for Coast Guard National Security Cutters. The settlement is divided into two pieces, a $2.2 million payment to the...

Top-10 DOJ False Claims Act Recoveries for 2017

Posted  01/18/18

Here is our look-back at the Top-10 Department of Justice False Claims Act recoveries for 2017. Click here for a full chronological listing of all the DOJ False Claims Act recoveries.

  1. Mylan Inc. -- The pharmaceutical company and its subsidiary Mylan Specialty L.P. agreed to pay $465 million to settle charges they violated the False Claims Act by purposely misclassifying...

Bassett Mirror Company Will Pay $10.5M to Settle Whistleblower’s Customs Duties FCA Allegations

Posted  01/17/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Bassett Mirror Company, a Virginia-based home furnishings company, has agreed to pay the United States $10.5 million to resolve allegations it evaded antidumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture imported from the People’s Republic of China over a five year period. Antidumping duties level the playing field for U.S. companies by protecting against foreign companies...

Justice Department Recovers over $3.7 Billion from False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2017

Posted  12/22/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team The Justice Department announced that it obtained more than $3.7 billion in settlements and judgements from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government during the 2017 fiscal year. Of the $3.7 billion, $2.4 billion involved the health care industry. Since the False Claims Act was amended in 1986, the Department of Justice has recovered over $56...

United Therapeutics Settles FCA Suit for $210M

Posted  12/21/17
United Therapeutics (UT), a Maryland-based pharmaceutical company which produces and distributes drugs for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension, has settled allegations that it illegally paid kickbacks to Medicare patients through its charitable foundation. In its effort to sell more pulmonary arterial hypertension drugs (including Adcirca, Remodulin, Tyvaso, and Orenitram), the company used a non-profit...

Two Physician Groups Pay Over $33M to Resolve Whistleblower Claims Involving HMA Hospitals

Posted  12/20/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Two physician groups, Dallas-based EmCare Inc. and Pennsylvania-based Physician’s Alliance Ltd (PAL), agreed to settlements that resolve claims the groups received illegal kickbacks in exchange for referring patients to hospitals owned by Health Management Associates (HMA). The settlements, announced by the Justice Department yesterday, resolve two separate whistleblower...

New Jersey Doctor and Son Sentenced to Prison for Medicare Fraud

Posted  12/19/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team New Jersey doctor Robert Claude McGrath and his chiropractor son Robert Christopher McGrath were sentenced to prison for conspiring to defraud Medicare by using unqualified people to give physical therapy to Medicare recipients.  The pair, sentenced to 30 and 12 months respectively, previously pleaded guilty to the charges.  They also were ordered to pay restitution of...

DaVita Rx Agrees to Pay $63.7 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Posted  12/15/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team DaVita Rx LLC, a nationwide pharmacy that specializes in serving patients with severe kidney disease, agreed to pay a total of $63.7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to improper billing practices and unlawful financial inducements to federal healthcare program beneficiaries, the Justice Department announced today.  DaVita Rx is based in Coppell,...
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