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October 12, 2023

Trans Union LLC and its subsidiary, TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions, Inc. (TURSS), have agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by failing to ensure the accuracy of information included in tenant background screening reports, thus hampering the ability of consumers to obtain housing.  Some of the failures included reporting developments in the same eviction proceeding as if they were from more than one eviction, mischaracterizing the nature of certain information, and failing to accurately report eviction outcomes.  CFPB; FTC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations,

October 11, 2023

Automotive management company Victory Automotive Group Inc. (VAG) has agreed to pay $9 million for allegedly providing false information on a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness application.  In order to be eligible for a PPP loan under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, VAG allegedly falsely certified that it was a small business with fewer than 500 employees, when in fact it and its affiliates cumulatively had over 3,000 employees across the country.  The misconduct was reported by a whistleblower in a qui tam suit; the whistleblower will receive a relator’s share of about $1.63 million.  DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Government Programs Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

October 10, 2023

Mobile cardiac PET scan provider Cardiac Imaging Inc. (CII), and its founder and owner Sam Kancherlapalli, have agreed to pay over $75 million and over $10 million, respectively, to resolve a qui tam case by former billing manager Lynda Pinto, which alleged the company, Kancherlapalli, and part-owner Richard Nassenstein defrauded Medicare.  In violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and False Claims Act, CII and Kancherlapalli allegedly paid kickbacks to referring cardiologists in the form of fees, ostensibly for supervising PET scans, that were far above fair market value.  The alleged misconduct occurred over a ten year period.  DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Provider Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

October 6, 2023

Two groups of student loan debt relief scammers—SL Finance LLC and owners Michael and Christian Castillo, along with BCO Consulting Services and SLA Consulting Services Inc and owners Gianni Olilang, Brandon Clores, Kishan Bhakta, and Allan Radam—have been ordered to pay a partially suspended $5.8 million each and be permanently banned from the industry.  The defendants pretended to be affiliated with the Department of Education and used their fake position to charge students millions in junk fees through nonexistent loan repayment and forgiveness programs.  FTC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations,

October 5, 2023

Software company Blackbaud has agreed to pay $49.5 million to 50 states in connection with a 2020 data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers.  Additionally, the company failed to immediately report, and after failed to reveal the full scope and impact, of the breach.  In addition to the monetary penalty, Blackbaud will overhaul its data security and breach notification practices.  NJ AG; OR AG; PA AG; NC AG; VA AG

Tagged in: Cybersecurity and Data Breaches,

October 2, 2023

Stanford University has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act in connection with 16 research grant proposals submitted to the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force, NASA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).  According to the government, Stanford failed to disclose foreign funding that had been received or was expected to be received between 2015 and 2020.  DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Grant and Research Fraud,

October 2, 2023

BioTek reMEDys Inc. and its CEO, Chaitanya Gadde, have agreed to pay $20 million to resolve allegations of providing illegal kickbacks to patients and physicians, in violation of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.  Former employees Shantae Wyatt and Latoya Sparrow alleged in a qui tam suit that the specialty pharmacy induced patients to purchase drugs by routinely waiving mandatory copays, and induced physicians to make referrals by providing dinners, gifts, and free administrative or clinical support services.  One physician in particular who received kickbacks, Dr. David Tabby, has paid $480,000 to resolve allegations against him.  Wyatt and Sparrow will receive over $4 million from the settlement with BioTek and Gadde, and over $91,000 from the settlement with Tabby.  DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

October 2, 2023

Genomic Health, Inc. (GHI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exact Sciences Corporation that provides clinical diagnostic tests, has agreed to pay $32.5 million to resolve two separate qui tam suits alleging violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute in connection with lab tests for cancer patients.  GHI allegedly evaded Medicare’s 14-Day Rule—which prohibits labs from separately billing for the same covered tests within 14 days of a patient’s discharge from a hospital—by canceling and reordering tests so they fell within appropriate time frames, seeking reimbursement directly from Medicare, and writing off unpaid lab fees owed by hospitals.  As a result of this settlement, the whistleblowers in the case will receive over $5.5 million.  DOJ

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Laboratory and IDTF, Medicare, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

September 30, 2023

The Cigna Group has agreed to pay over $172 million and enter into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement in order to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act.  According to qui tam suit by a former part-owner of a Cigna vendor, Robert Cutler—who will receive an $8.1 million share of the settlement—the healthcare company knowingly submitted inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes on behalf of Medicare Advantage Plan beneficiaries in order to inflate their reimbursements from Medicare.  DOJ

Tagged in: Certifications, FCA Federal, Healthcare Fraud, Medicare, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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