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Anti-Kickback and Stark

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DOJ Catch Of The Week -- Warner Chilcott

Posted  10/30/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Warner Chilcott US Sales LLC, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical manufacturer Warner Chilcott PLC.  Yesterday, the company agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of health care fraud as part of a global settlement in which Warner Chilcott agreed to pay $125 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising...

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DOJ Scores Big With Two Whistleblower False Claims Act Wins

Posted  10/23/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team It was a good week for the Department of Justice in reigning in corporate fraud.  Not only did it secure more than $700 million in fines and penalties from Crédit Agricole for violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers and Trading With the Enemy Acts.  See DOJ Catch of the Week.  It also pulled in two additional eight and nine-figure settlements from two...

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October 14, 2015

The Maryland Attorney General announced a $13.5 million settlement with NuVasive, Inc, resolving allegations brought in a whistleblower suit that the California medical device company improperly marketed its spine surgery products and provided kickbacks to doctors through speaking fees and other payments. MD

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DOJ Catch of the Week — PharMerica Corp.

Posted  10/9/15
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "Catch of the Week" goes to Kentucky-based PharMerica Corp.  On Wednesday, the nation’s second-largest nursing home pharmacy agreed to pay $9.25 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by soliciting and receiving kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories in exchange for promoting the anti-epileptic...

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October 8, 2015

43 states joined the federal government in a $9.25 million dollar settlement with PharMerica over allegations in two separate whistleblower actions that PharMerica conspired with Abbott Laboratories, a drug manufacturer, through a number of disguised kickback arrangements to increase overall utilization of the drug Depakote and to promote misbranded Depakote. FL; MA; NH

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Off-Label and Unapproved Use,

September 29, 2015

The New Jersey Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor obtained an indictment against a doctor, Syed Jaffery, for accepting kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. The indictment alleges that from 2010 to 2013, Jaffrey participated in a scheme by which he agreed to refer patients needing MRI and CT scans to Diagnostic Imaging Services of South Jersey in exchange for monetary kickbacks. Over the course of the scheme, Jaffrey allegedly accepted approximately $195,000. In an attempt to disguise the arrangement, the kickback checks were made payable to Jaffrey’s alleged shell company Mask Realities and purported to be for a rental space for billing services. NJ

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DOJ’s Adventist Settlement Puts the Power of Whistleblowers in "Stark" Relief

Posted  09/23/15
The Compliance & Ethics Blog (September 23, 2015). Click here to read the article.

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DOJ’s Adventist Settlement Puts the Power of Whistleblowers in “Stark” Relief

Posted  09/23/15
By Tim McCormack and Molly Knobler (published on SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Blog) There is no denying that certain aspects of the Physician Self-Referral Law, more commonly known as the “Stark Law,” are complicated. The Stark Law and its corresponding regulatory scheme include a web of technical terms, safe harbors, and interpretive guidance.   Is this complexity a necessary byproduct of the...

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Stark Law Enforcement Trend: Hospital and Individual Physician Settle Allegations of Stark Law Violations and Illegal Upcoding

Posted  09/18/15
By Tim McCormack and Molly Knobler (published on SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Blog) The Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) recent string of victories against hospitals that have (allegedly) paid illegal inducements to employed physicians continues.  On September 4, 2015, DOJ settled two False Claims Act (“FCA”) suits with Columbus Regional Healthcare System (“Columbus”) and Dr. Andrew Pippas. ...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Healthcare Fraud, Provider Fraud, Upcoding,

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Stark Law Enforcement Trend: Hospital and Individual Physician Settle Allegations of Stark Law Violations and Illegal Upcoding

Posted  09/17/15
The Compliance & Ethics Blog publishes article by Constantine Cannon whistleblower lawyers Molly Knobler and Tim McCormack.  (September 17, 2015) Click here to read the article.

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Upcoding,

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