Eye Surgery Provider Settles FCA Kickback Allegations for $12M
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team 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 press release, Sightpath paid kickbacks to physicians in the form of...