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Catch of the Week -- Prime Healthcare
Posted 08/9/18
August 8, 2018
Dr. Donald Chamberlain and Karen Chamberlain, the owners of a Chattanooga gynecology practice, will pay $428,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations. According to the government, the Chamberlains used foreign-sourced, non-FDA approved, anticancer drugs, and billed Medicare and Tennessee’s Medicaid programs for similar, approved drugs. The drugs the Chamberlains used were cheaper than similar drugs that were approved by the FDA. USAO Eastern District of TennesseeAugust 7, 2018
International Marine and Industrial Applicators, LLC (IMIA) and Marine Equipment Supply, LLC (MES), two marine maintenance companies, have paid $2.8M to settle allegations that they improperly billed the Navy for rental equipment. Under the contract that the companies had with the Navy, they were not allowed to charge for rental equipment. The companies violated this provision when they charged over $1.4M for the rental of hull repair machinery. USAO Western District of WashingtonAugust 6, 2018
Richard Olsen, the CFO of Mission Support Alliance LLC, a Department of Energy contractor, will pay $124,000 to resolve allegations that he received a $40,000 kickback from Lockheed Martin. According to the allegations, Mr. Olsen received the kickback in exchange for a Lockheed Martin subsidiary receiving a lucrative subcontract. Mission Support Alliance is a Lockheed Martin subsidiary as well. USAO Eastern District of WashingtonAugust 6, 2018
Grenada Lake Medical Center will pay $1.1M to settle allegations that it violated the FCA by submitting claims for medically unnecessary psychotherapy services to the Medicare program. The alleged fraud lasted over eight years and was brought to light by a whistleblower, a former programs manager at the company, who will receive an award of $195k. USAO Eastern District of ArkansasAugust 3, 2018
Prime Healthcare Services and related entities, as well as its CEO Dr. Prem Reddy, will pay $65 million to settle two Medicare fraud allegations. First, Prime and Dr. Reddy allegedly engaged in a centralized scheme to boost inpatient admissions of patients who had no medical need to be admitted. Second, they allegedly falsely upcoded patients’ diagnoses in order to increase reimbursements. Whistleblower Karin Berntsen, who initiated the lawsuit, will receive over $17 million of the settlement. DOJ; CDCAAugust 3, 2018
Northwest ENT Associates, P.C. agreed to pay $1,195,361 to settle allegations under the federal False Claims Act that they re-used balloon catheters in medical procedures, even though they were intended only for a single use. By choosing to cut a corner for their own financial benefit, Northwest ENT put their patients’ health in jeopardy as well as impacting federal funds needed for other medical procedures. Northwest ENT has entered into a three-year Integrity Agreement with the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. DOJAugust 3, 2018
A former subcontractor, Andrew Nolan, has pleaded guilty to falsifying quality testing results for the concrete used on the Dulles Metrorail Project. The actual results would have caused the concrete to be rejected in the project, which is partially funded by the Department of Transportation. Nolan is being prosecuted under both the federal False Claims Act and the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and faces a maximum of five years in prison. USAO EDVACatch of the Week -- William Beaumont Hospital
Posted 08/3/18
