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Top Ten State Healthcare and Financial Fraud Recoveries of 2019
Posted 01/30/20
January 16, 2020
Udaya Shetty, a psychiatrist in Virginia, was sentenced to over two years in prison and has agreed to pay over $1 million to the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia to resolve allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE. Shetty was accused of billing for services that average about 40-60 minutes long, despite quadruple booking patients and only seeing them for about 5-10 minutes each. The scheme began at his own practice, Behavioral & Neuropsychiatric Group, in 2013, and continued at a new practice, Quietly Radiant Psychiatric Services, in 2017. As a result of his actions, government health programs were defrauded of more than $450,000. USAO EDVATop Ten Non-Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries of 2019
Posted 01/10/20
Top Ten Whistleblower Awards of 2019
Posted 01/9/20
December 19, 2019
Nassir Medical Corp., which does business as the Cancer Care Institute, and its owner, Dr. Youram Nassir, have agreed to pay $3.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare and Medicaid for oncology drugs that were not actually purchased, dispensed, or administered, and for infusion services that were not actually provided. The case was initiated by whistleblower Kenneth Bryan, who will receive a whistleblower reward of $475,000 from the federal government. USAO CD CalDecember 17, 2019
India-based outsourcing and business consulting firm Infosys Ltd. has agreed to pay $800,000 to the State of California to resolve allegations that the company misclassified approximately 500 Infosys employees as working in California on B-1 visas rather than H-1B visas. By using the B-1 visas, Infosys avoided California payroll taxes and avoided the H-1B obligation to pay workers at the local prevailing wage. The case was initiated by a whistleblower complaint under the California False Claims Act filed by Jack "Jay" B. Palmer, who will receive 15% of the settlement. CADecember 17, 2019
Miracle Home Care, Inc. and its owner, Shashicka Tyre-Hill, have together been ordered to pay more than $10 million following judgment in an action under the False Claims Act finding that defendants defrauded Georgia’s Medicaid program. In a civil complaint filed in July 2018, the federal government and State of Georgia alleged that Miracle Home Care submitted thousands of fraudulent reimbursement claims for medically unnecessary transportation and health services. USAO SDGAGovernment Audit of Chronic Care Management Services Raises Serious Questions About Proposed Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors
Posted 11/22/19
