New York Urgent Care Clinic Pays Over $6.6M to Settle FCA Suit
Posted 05/7/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
CityMD, a company that manages over 80 urgent care clinics in and around New York City, has settled allegations that it billed Medicare for more expensive services than were actually performed, and that it billed Medicare under the names of doctors who did not actually perform the services. Under the terms of the settlement, CityMD also accepted responsibility for its...
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Georgia Bone & Joint, Summit Surgery Center, Southern Crescent Anesthesiology, Sentry Anesthesia Management, and David LaGuardia agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle allegations that LaGuardia, Sentry, and SCA provided a free medical director to Summit Surgery Center in order to induce it to choose to perform more procedures at the surgery center rather than in the GBJ office. GBJ...
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The 
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UPMC Hamot and Medicor Associates, a hospital and a cardiology group located in Erie, Pennsylvania, have 
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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...
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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, 
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Florida-based 21st Century Oncology Inc. and several of its subsidiaries have 
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office 
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A South Carolina family medical practice chain, along with its owner and laboratory director, agreed to pay roughly $2 Million to settle charges of violating the 
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Sightpath Medical, Inc., its parent TLC Vision Corp., and its former CEO James Tiffany have agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations, originally brought by a whistleblower, that they defrauded the government by billing it for eye surgery products and services tainted by illegal kickbacks to physicians.
According to the Justice Department’s