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March 14, 2022
Freight carriers YRC Freight Inc., Roadway Express Inc., and Yellow Transportation Inc. will pay $6.85 million to resolve government claims that they knowingly overcharged the Department of Defense on military freight shipments. Whistleblower James Hannum, a Yellow Transportation employee, filed a qui tam action alleging that the companies had a practice of re-weighing shipments and, when the reweighs showed an increase from the original weight, defendants charged DOD for these higher weights, but when the reweighs showed a decrease from the original weight, defendants allegedly concealed the lower weight and instead charged DOD for the original, inflated weights. Hannum will receive a whistleblower award of approximately $1.3 million. DOJMarch 8, 2022
Comprehensive Health Services LLC (CHS), a Florida-based contractor that provides medical services at government facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, has agreed to pay $930,000 to resolve claims under the False Claims Act. According to two separate qui tam cases filed in the Eastern District of New York, CHS falsely certified to the State Department and Air Force that it had complied with contractual cybersecurity requirements when, in fact, it had failed to to properly store patient medical records on a secure electronic medical record system, and had falsely represented that it used approved medical supplies when, in fact, it had relied on unapproved controlled substances from foreign sources. DOJ; USAO EDNY; USAO MDFLMarch 7, 2022
Redwood Toxicology Laboratory has agreed to pay nearly $4.8 million to settle allegations that the California-based urine drug testing service overcharged the Connecticut Medicaid program for certain laboratory services, in violation of Connecticut’s “Most Favored Nation” regulation, which provides that the state should not be charged more than the lowest price charged to third parties. The settlement covered claims submitted between January 2015 through February 2018. USAO CTMarch 7, 2022
MOX Services LLC, formerly known as CV&I AREVA MOX Services LLC (MOX), has agreed to a $10 million settlement to resolve allegations of violating the False Claims Act. As the prime contractor for a federal facility in South Carolina, MOX was responsible for confirming receipt of materials from any subcontractors before presenting claims to the government. According to the DOJ, however, MOX knowingly sought reimbursement from the Department of Energy for millions of dollars of materials not received from one of its subcontractors, Wise Services Inc., and which it submitted to the DOE in exchange for kickbacks from Wise. DOJMarch 3, 2022
New York-based ophthalmologist Ameet Goyal, M.D., who owned and operated Rye Eye Associates, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison and ordered to pay $3.6 million in forfeiture as well as $3.6 million in restitution for submitting $3.6 million in upcoded charges to Medicare, private insurers, and patients between 2010 and 2017. While facing charges for healthcare fraud in 2020, Goyal also falsely certified that he was not facing any criminal charges in order to obtain over $600,000 in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program. USAO SDNYTriMark Settlement Highlights Fraud in Set-Aside Programs
Posted 03/1/22
As Whistleblowers and Quality Care Advocates, Hospitalists are the Conscience of Healthcare
Posted 02/28/22
February 23, 2022
TriMark USA, LLC and related entities will pay $48.5 million to resolve claims brought in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that they improperly manipulated federal contract set-asides for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) by enlisting small business to secure the contracts while TriMark actually performed all of the work and received most of the benefits of the federal contract. In addition, former TriMark executive Kimberley Rimsza has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve claims against her. The whistleblower, Fox Unlimited Enterprises, LLP, will receive an award of $10.9 million. USAO ND NY; USAO ED WATop 5 Reasons Why Nurses Make Great Whistleblowers
Posted 02/22/22
